Collins tapped to lead NIH

The Obama administration has nominated geneticist Francis Collins to take the helm of the National Institutes of Health. Francis CollinsImage: WikipediaCollins, 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 linkurl:told;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54702/ __The Scientist__ that he believes science should play a prominent role in policy making. "I would hope that there would be a strong

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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 linkurl:told;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54702/ __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.
**__Related stories:__***linkurl:Report: Collins to lead NIH;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55733/
[26th May 2009]*linkurl:FDA head chosen, NIH names swirling;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55507/
[12th March 2009]*linkurl:Collins to industry, top of NIH?;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54702/
[28th May 2008]
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  • From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.

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