Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the
National Institutes of Health (NIH). He led the successful
effort to complete Human Genome Project (HGP), a complex
multidisciplinary scientific enterprise directed at mapping
and sequencing all of the human DNA, and determining aspects
of its function. A working draft of the human genome
sequence was announced in June of 2000, an initial analysis
was published in February of 2001, and a high-quality,
reference sequence was completed in April 2003. From the
outset, the project ran ahead of schedule and under budget,
and all the data is now available to the scientific
community without restrictions on access or use. Dr. Collins received a B.S. from the University of Virginia,
a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale University, and an
M.D. from the University of North Carolina. Following a
fellowship in Human Genetics at Yale, he joined the faculty
at the University of Michigan, where he remained until
moving to NIH in 1993. His research has led to the
identification of genes responsible for cystic fibrosis,
neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease and
Hutchison-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the
Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Series
Books:The Language Of Life, January 2010
Hardcover (reprint)
The Language of God, July 2007
Paperback
The Language of God, July 2006
Hardcover
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