Flourishing

I recently learned that Dr Francis Collins will be one of our plenary speakers at FC08! It’s wonderful news. Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Here’s a little bit about his credentials:

Dr. Collins received a B.S. from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale University, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina. Following a fellowship in Human Genetics at Yale, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he remained until moving to NIH in 1993. His research has led to the identification of genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes and the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington’s disease and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

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