Francis Collins

American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health

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Born: 1950-04-14
Died: 1921
Works: 11

Top works

Parish Register of St. Mary, Bishophill Junior, York. 1602-1812
A catalogue of the inquisitions post mortem for the county of York, for the reigns of James I and Charles I, in the Courts of Chancery and of Wards and Liveries
Registers of Danby-In-Cleveland
The Sabbath breaker reclaimed, or, A pleasing history of Thomas Brown
Wills and administrations from the Knaresborough Court Rolls

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Acting · Staunton, Virginia, USA

Francis Sellers Collins is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Known for

Jonathan & Jesus — Self2024
The Vaccine: Conquering COVID — Self2021
Explained — Self (archive footage)2018
Bill Nye: Science Guy — Self2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self2015

Article

Francis Sellers Collins ForMemRS (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-scientist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He served as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, from 17 August 2009 to 19 December 2021, serving under three presidents. Collins announced his retirement publicly from the NIH on March 1, 2025, after 32 years of service.

Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.