Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now
Francis Collins: Şimdi daha iyi ilaçlara ihtiyacımız var
A key player in the US' new brain-mapping project, Francis Collins is director of the National Institutes of Health. Full bio
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Francis Collins - Geneticist, physicianA key player in the US' new brain-mapping project, Francis Collins is director of the National Institutes of Health.
Why you should listen
In 2000 the world saw the first working draft of the human genome, and that's in no small part thanks to Francis Collins. Under his directorship at the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Human Genome Project was finished, a complete mapping of all 20,500 genes in the human genome, with a high-quality, reference sequence published in April 2003.
In 2009 President Obama nominated Collins as the director of the National Institutes of Health, and later that year he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In March 2013, Collins helped Obama introduce the BRAIN Initiative, an ambitious, well-funded program to map the human brain. Read more about the BRAIN Initiative >>
Collins is also a self-described serious Christian and the author of several books on science and faith, including The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
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