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National Human Genome Research Leader Collins Stepping Down
BETHESDA, MD — Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wednesday announced his intention to step down Aug. 1.
Collins, 58, a physician-geneticist, has served as NHGRI’s director since 1993. He led the Human Genome Project (HGP) to its successful conclusion in 2003, and subsequently initiated and managed a wide range of projects that built upon the foundation laid by the sequencing of the human genome. All these projects have made their data rapidly and freely available to the worldwide scientific community. Collectively, these projects and their data have transformed biomedical research and empowered researchers all around the world.
