Director, National Institutes of Health
As NIH Director, Dr. Collins oversees the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, spanning the spectrum from basic to clinical research. Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. He served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993-2008.
Web Information
NIH web pages: http://www.nih.gov/about/director/index.htm
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins
Twitter: @NIHDirector
Contact Information
Email:francis.collins@nih.gov
Phone: 301-496-2433
Address: 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Biosketch
From NIH Director’s page
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In that role he oversees the work of the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world, spanning the spectrum from basic to clinical research.
Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. He served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993-2008.
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