A Republican senator is asking President-elect Trump to keep Dr. Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health as the medical research agency is slated to receive almost $5 billion more for research over the next decade.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called on Trump to keep Collins as the research institute’s director as his leadership is needed to implement the newly signed 21^st Century Cures Act. Obama on Tuesday signed the biomedical research package, which provides $4.8 billion to NIH.

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