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Francis Collins, Ph.D., is the Director of the National Human Genome
Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He oversees a
fifteen year project directed at mapping and sequencing all of the human
genes. He received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale, and a 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 led to the
identification of genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis,
and Huntington's disease. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine
and the National Academy of Sciences.
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