From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree ...

Dr. Francis Collins has had quite a career. He’s a physician and geneticist who was director of the International Human Genome Project. It successfully sequenced all three billion letters of our DNA, ...

In the second keynote talk in GEN’s “The State of Multiomics and NGS” virtual summit, originally broadcast on April 23, 2025, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, former Director at National Institutes of Health ...

May 29, 2008 — Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, best known for his 10-year leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP), will step down from his position as director of the National Human Genome Research ...

There has been an increase in autism diagnoses over the years, and medical researchers are looking into what could be the cause.

Francis Collins is a physician and geneticist, most widely noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his work leading the effort to sequence the human genome. Born in Virginia, Collins received ...

The Christian doctor and researcher sees a “moral imperative” in destroying a curable fatal illness. Other countries are on track to erase it, but not the United States. Francis Collins, the former ...

Dr. Francis Collins has been at the forefront of the world’s most advanced biomedical research. He led the Human Genome Project and was the longest-serving director of the National Institutes of ...

Collins, who was the director of the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute from 1993 to 2008, is in the final stages of being screened by the administration of US President Barack Obama, an ...