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Francis Collins Named Senior Fellow

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has been named a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum. Dr. Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (He takes on the role of Senior Fellow in a private capacity.)

He is a scientist renowned for his contributions to finding the genetic basis of disease, including identifying the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, and for his leadership of the Human Genome Project. Among his books are Principles of Medical Genetics (1998) and The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006).

Jan 2008