Francis Collins: “Freedom is about rights, but it's also about responsibilities.”

Let me remind you of the last sentence of that Gettysburg Address: 'that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'

Both of those groundbreaking projects, BRAIN and All of Us, are now at severe risk because of budget and workforce cuts.

Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, labeled me a fringe epidemiologist.

Public service is the most wonderful kind of experience you can have.