Francis Collins
Francis Collins
Director, National Institutes of Health
As the director of the National Institute of Health, Francis Collins oversees the primary government agency for biomedical and health research. The work of the NIH is generally focused on domestic health issues, but Collins has stated his commitment to setting an international example of the United States’ leadership in quickly solving and treating world health issues, and recognizes the connections between American and global health. Collins is a physician and scientist who helped guide the Human Genome Project to completion, and developed groundbreaking gene-identification techniques. He was the first director of NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute.
As of 11/12/09
