The NIH Director
The NIH Director
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., NIH Director
What’s New
April 20, 2012
Statement by NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D. on the NSABB Review of Revised H5N1 Manuscripts
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April 14, 2012
Statement on NSABB's March 30, 2012 Recommendations to NIH on H5N1 Research, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
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March 29, 2012
As part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival’s Nifty Fifty program, NIH Director Francis Collins visits Bladensburg HS to motivate students to enter the science, technology and engineering field.
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March 28, 2012
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor–HHS–Education Appropriations, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., (PDF - 188 KB)
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March 20, 2012
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health (PDF - 94 KB)
Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (PDF - 35 KB)
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Perspectives on NIH Science – Articles by Dr. Collins
Can cellphones be used to detect heart attacks? New technology makes this possible, at least on iPhones. While visiting India, Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, discusses his participation in a clinical trial that uses an iPhone app to monitor his heart rate.
Francis Collins: 3 Scientific Breakthroughs Changing Medicine
(Medscape Internal Medicine, February 15, 2012)
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Steering a New Course for Stem Cell Research: NIH's Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine(PDF - 291 KB)
(Stem Cells Translational Medicine, Vol. 1, January 2012)
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Mapping the NIH Leadership’s DNA: NIH Director Dr. Collins on innovation in Federal leadership.
(Washington Post Federal Coach, October 19, 2011)
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A Major Environmental Cause of Death
(Science, Vol. 334, October 14, 2011)
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About the NIH Director
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., was officially sworn in on Monday, August 17, 2009 as the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Collins was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 8, and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7.
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