Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health runs the largest biomedical research facility in the world but he’s also the most musically gifted federal official around.

Case in point: The video message he prepared for an awards dinner hosted by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health last month. Francis Collins provided a video and a song that set the stage at the FNIH Award Ceremony May 14, 2013, where the first annual Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences was awarded to Ruslan Medzhitov, M.D.