Francis Collins Francis Collins is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. He is both a medical doctor and a
leading gene scientist who was part of the team which discovered the genes for cystic fibrosis and
Francis Collins Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist and the Director
of the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH . In that role he oversees a
fifteen year project aimed at mapping and sequencing all of
of this latter group is Dr. Francis Collins , a leading
gene researcher and the director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute. Dr. Collins, who was head of the team that discovered the genes for
cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease
and religious believer, DR. Francis Collins .
DR. COLLINS: My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that
found the genes for cystic fibrosis and Huntington's Disease , and