Francis Collins
Francis Collins | |
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| Director of the National Institutes of Health | |
| Assumed office August 7, 2009 | |
| President | Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Elias Zerhouni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Francis Sellers Collins April 14, 1950 Staunton, Virginia, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Diane Baker |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia Yale University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Website | Office of the Director |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Semiclassical theory of vibrationally inelastic scattering, with application to H+ and H2 (1974) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jim Cross[1][2] |
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist. He is known for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland since 2009.
Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH.
Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ to the thesis: Francis Collins Video at YouTube
- ↑ Smith, Kerri; Baker, Noah (2016). "Back to the thesis: Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them". Nature. 535 (7610): 22–25. doi:10.1038/535022a.
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