Francis Collins is director of the Nationwide People Genome Analysis Institution, the center financed by the US govt that matched the worldwide People Genome Venture.
As head of NHGRI, Collins oversaw the HGP, the multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, international effort to map and sequence the 3 billion letters in the human DNA instruction book. Many consider this project to have been the most significant scientific undertaking of our time. The ultimate goal is to improve human health.
Name = Francis Collins
Born = Shenandoah Area
achivements = His work as a teacher, a researcher and an administrator has won him numerous national and international awards and honours. .
