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Collins tapped to lead NIH

Posted by Bob Grant

[Entry posted at 8th July 2009 07:50 PM GMT]

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The Obama administration has nominated geneticist Francis Collins to take the helm of the National Institutes of Health.

Francis Collins
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Collins, who led the US government's push to sequence the human genome as head of the National Human Genome Research Institute in the 1990s, previously told The Scientist that he believes science should play a prominent role in policy making. "I would hope that there would be a strong and suggestive voice for science in the room, at the table," Collins said last May.

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