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Question: How has the recession affected the NIH's funding priorities? Francis Collins: Having the economy struggling at the level that it is and having rising concerns, understandably so, about the federal deficit has certainly had an impact on funding for biomedical research ...

Question: How much is the NIH's funding process affected by politics? Francis Collins: We're fortunate at NIH, that the Congress has in general has adopted a view that making priority decisions about scientific research is best done by scientists. Francis Collins: Well ...

One day, we'll all have smart cards containing our entire genetic inventory, our family history and our likely reaction to certain medications. One day. So says Francis Collins, whose team led the race to sequence the human genome, and whose lab discovered ...

Ten years ago, Bill Clinton strode onto the White House lawn to pronounce that the first draft of the human genome was complete. He was flanked by Francis Collins and Craig Venter, the leaders of rival public and private sequencing initiatives, who ...

The biomedical research community was buzzing Friday with a rumor that the White House would nominate geneticist Francis Collins that afternoon to head the National Institutes of Health.

The White House intends to tap geneticist Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. President Barack Obama's announcement today ends months of speculation that Collins, leader of the international Human Genome Project, was about to be named to head the ...

This afternoon, the White House will nominate geneticist Francis Collins to be director of the National Institutes of Health, administration sources say..

The Senate today confirmed geneticist Francis Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health. A Senate committee had approved the nomination of the former NIH genome institute director on Tuesday without holding the customary hearing, just 4 weeks after Collins was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The 10-year-old Human Genome Project has only just begun to bring to fruition its promise to transform medicine, its founders said on Thursday.Francis Collins, who led the U.S. component of the project and is now director of the U.S. ...

When President Barack Obama appointed Francis Collins, a geneticist and evangelical Christian, to head the National Institutes of Health in 2009, a cry went up. To get a more definitive answer, we reviewed responses from 744 tenured and tenure-track scientists (chemists, biologists, ...

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