Senate Confirms Francis S. Collins As NIH Director
Credit: Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI |
On August 7, the U.S. Senate confirmed that former NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will be the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Dr. Collins on July 8th. Dr. Collins, a physician and geneticist who led NHGRI from 1993 to 2008, managed the NIH component of the international Human Genome Project.
Read the Statement from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [nih.gov]
Read Dr. Collins' Biography
Read the White House Statement
See Photos of Dr. Collins |