Francis Collins
Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents.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.
Collins also has written books on science, medicine, and religion, including the ''New York Times'' bestseller, ''The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief''. After leaving the directorship of NHGRI and before becoming director of the NIH, he founded and served as president of The BioLogos Foundation, which promotes discourse on the relationship between science and religion and advocates the perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science, especially through the idea that the Creator brought about his plan through the processes of evolution. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
On October 5, 2021, Collins announced that he would resign as NIH director by the end of the year. Four months later in February 2022, he joined the Cabinet of Joe Biden as Acting Science Advisor to the President, replacing Eric Lander. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Francis Collins, Alain Beaudet, Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Peter Gruss, John Savill, André Syrota, Alice Dautry, Mats Ulfendahl, Mark Walport, James Onken, Roger I GlassGet full text
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3by Mary K Lewinski, Masahiro Yamashita, Michael Emerman, Angela Ciuffi, Heather Marshall, Gregory Crawford, Francis Collins, Paul Shinn, Jeremy Leipzig, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Charles C Berry, Joseph R Ecker, Frederic D BushmanGet full text
Published 2006-06-01
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4by Kenneth Ekoru, Ayo Doumatey, Amy R. Bentley, Guanjie Chen, Jie Zhou, Daniel Shriner, Olufemi Fasanmade, Godfrey Okafor, Benjamin Eghan, Jr, Kofi Agyenim-Boateng, Jokotade Adeleye, Williams Balogun, Albert Amoah, Joseph Acheampong, Thomas Johnson, Johnnie Oli, Clement Adebamowo, Francis Collins, Georgia Dunston, Adebowale Adeyemo, Charles RotimiGet full text
Published 2019-11-01
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5by Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Norann A. Zaghloul, Guanjie Chen, Ayo P. Doumatey, Carmen C. Leitch, Timothy L. Hostelley, Jessica E. Nesmith, Jie Zhou, Amy R. Bentley, Daniel Shriner, Olufemi Fasanmade, Godfrey Okafor, Benjamin Eghan, Kofi Agyenim-Boateng, Settara Chandrasekharappa, Jokotade Adeleye, William Balogun, Samuel Owusu, Albert Amoah, Joseph Acheampong, Thomas Johnson, Johnnie Oli, Clement Adebamowo, South Africa Zulu Type 2 Diabetes Case-Control Study, Francis Collins, Georgia Dunston, Charles N. RotimiGet full text
Published 2019-07-01
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6by M. Carola Zillikens, Serkalem Demissie, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Wen-Chi Chou, Lisette Stolk, Gregory Livshits, Linda Broer, Toby Johnson, Daniel L. Koller, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian’an Luan, Ida Malkin, Janina S. Ried, Albert V. Smith, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Jing Hua Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Ali Aghdassi, Kristina Åkesson, Najaf Amin, Leslie J. Baier, Inês Barroso, David A. Bennett, Lars Bertram, Rainer Biffar, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Ingrid B. Borecki, Aron S. Buchman, Liisa Byberg, Harry Campbell, Natalia Campos Obanda, Jane A. Cauley, Peggy M. Cawthon, Henna Cederberg, Zhao Chen, Nam H. Cho, Hyung Jin Choi, Melina Claussnitzer, Francis Collins, Steven R. Cummings, Philip L. De Jager, Ilja Demuth, Rosalie A. M. Dhonukshe-Rutten, Luda Diatchenko, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Anke W. Enneman, Mike Erdos, Johan G. Eriksson, Joel Eriksson, Karol Estrada, Daniel S. Evans, Mary F. Feitosa, Mao Fu, Melissa Garcia, Christian Gieger, Thomas Girke, Nicole L. Glazer, Harald Grallert, Jagvir Grewal, Bok-Ghee Han, Robert L. Hanson, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Eric P. Hoffman, Georg Homuth, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Monica J. Hubal, Alan Hubbard, Kim M. Huffman, Lise B. Husted, Thomas Illig, Erik Ingelsson, Till Ittermann, John-Olov Jansson, Joanne M. Jordan, Antti Jula, Magnus Karlsson, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Norman Klopp, Jacqueline S. L. Kloth, Heikki A. Koistinen, William E. Kraus, Stephen Kritchevsky, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Jari Lahti, Thomas Lang, Bente L. Langdahl, Lenore J. Launer, Jong-Young Lee, Markus M. Lerch, Joshua R. Lewis, Lars Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Yongmei Liu, Tian Liu, Youfang Liu, Östen Ljunggren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert N. Luben, William Maixner, Fiona E. McGuigan, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Thomas Meitinger, Håkan Melhus, Dan Mellström, Simon Melov, Karl Michaëlsson, Braxton D. Mitchell, Andrew P. Morris, Leif Mosekilde, Anne Newman, Carrie M. Nielson, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Ben A. Oostra, Eric S. Orwoll, Aarno Palotie, Stephen C. J. Parker, Munro Peacock, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Richard L. Prince, Katri Räikkönen, Stuart H. Ralston, Samuli Ripatti, John A. Robbins, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Veikko Salomaa, Suzanne Satterfield, Eric E. Schadt, Sabine Schipf, Laura Scott, Joban Sehmi, Jian Shen, Chan Soo Shin, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Shad Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Alena Stančáková, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elizabeth A. Streeten, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Karin M. A. Swart, Sian-Tsung Tan, Mark A. Tarnopolsky, Patricia Thompson, Cynthia A. Thomson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emmi Tikkanen, Gregory J. Tranah, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Natasja M. van Schoor, Arjun Verma, Peter Vollenweider, Henry Völzke, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Mark Walker, Michael N. Weedon, Ryan Welch, H.-Erich Wichmann, Elisabeth Widen, Frances M. K. Williams, James F. Wilson, Nicole C. Wright, Weijia Xie, Lei Yu, Yanhua Zhou, John C. Chambers, Angela Döring, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Michael J. Econs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jaspal S. Kooner, Bruce M. Psaty, Timothy D. Spector, Kari Stefansson, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G. Uitterlinden, Nicholas J. Wareham, Vicky Ossowski, Dawn Waterworth, Ruth J. F. Loos, David Karasik, Tamara B. Harris, Claes Ohlsson, Douglas P. KielGet full text
Published 2017-11-01
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7by M. Carola Zillikens, Serkalem Demissie, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Wen-Chi Chou, Lisette Stolk, Gregory Livshits, Linda Broer, Toby Johnson, Daniel L. Koller, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian’an Luan, Ida Malkin, Janina S. Ried, Albert V. Smith, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Jing Hua Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Ali Aghdassi, Kristina Åkesson, Najaf Amin, Leslie J. Baier, Inês Barroso, David A. Bennett, Lars Bertram, Rainer Biffar, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Ingrid B. Borecki, Aron S. Buchman, Liisa Byberg, Harry Campbell, Natalia Campos Obanda, Jane A. Cauley, Peggy M. Cawthon, Henna Cederberg, Zhao Chen, Nam H. Cho, Hyung Jin Choi, Melina Claussnitzer, Francis Collins, Steven R. Cummings, Philip L. De Jager, Ilja Demuth, Rosalie A. M. Dhonukshe-Rutten, Luda Diatchenko, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Anke W. Enneman, Mike Erdos, Johan G. Eriksson, Joel Eriksson, Karol Estrada, Daniel S. Evans, Mary F. Feitosa, Mao Fu, Melissa Garcia, Christian Gieger, Thomas Girke, Nicole L. Glazer, Harald Grallert, Jagvir Grewal, Bok-Ghee Han, Robert L. Hanson, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Eric P. Hoffman, Georg Homuth, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Monica J. Hubal, Alan Hubbard, Kim M. Huffman, Lise B. Husted, Thomas Illig, Erik Ingelsson, Till Ittermann, John-Olov Jansson, Joanne M. Jordan, Antti Jula, Magnus Karlsson, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Norman Klopp, Jacqueline S. L. Kloth, Heikki A. Koistinen, William E. Kraus, Stephen Kritchevsky, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Jari Lahti, Thomas Lang, Bente L. Langdahl, Lenore J. Launer, Jong-Young Lee, Markus M. Lerch, Joshua R. Lewis, Lars Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Yongmei Liu, Tian Liu, Youfang Liu, Östen Ljunggren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert N. Luben, William Maixner, Fiona E. McGuigan, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Thomas Meitinger, Håkan Melhus, Dan Mellström, Simon Melov, Karl Michaëlsson, Braxton D. Mitchell, Andrew P. Morris, Leif Mosekilde, Anne Newman, Carrie M. Nielson, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Ben A. Oostra, Eric S. Orwoll, Aarno Palotie, Stephen C. J. Parker, Munro Peacock, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Richard L. Prince, Katri Räikkönen, Stuart H. Ralston, Samuli Ripatti, John A. Robbins, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Veikko Salomaa, Suzanne Satterfield, Eric E. Schadt, Sabine Schipf, Laura Scott, Joban Sehmi, Jian Shen, Chan Soo Shin, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Shad Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Alena Stančáková, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elizabeth A. Streeten, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Karin M. A. Swart, Sian-Tsung Tan, Mark A. Tarnopolsky, Patricia Thompson, Cynthia A. Thomson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emmi Tikkanen, Gregory J. Tranah, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Natasja M. van Schoor, Arjun Verma, Peter Vollenweider, Henry Völzke, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Mark Walker, Michael N. Weedon, Ryan Welch, H.-Erich Wichmann, Elisabeth Widen, Frances M. K. Williams, James F. Wilson, Nicole C. Wright, Weijia Xie, Lei Yu, Yanhua Zhou, John C. Chambers, Angela Döring, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Michael J. Econs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jaspal S. Kooner, Bruce M. Psaty, Timothy D. Spector, Kari Stefansson, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G. Uitterlinden, Nicholas J. Wareham, Vicky Ossowski, Dawn Waterworth, Ruth J. F. Loos, David Karasik, Tamara B. Harris, Claes Ohlsson, Douglas P. KielGet full text
Published 2017-07-01
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