The NIH Director
The NIH Director
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., NIH Director
What’s New
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May 15, 2013
Fiscal Year 2014 Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Labor–HHS–Education Appropriations, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. (New)
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May 10, 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, NIMH Director Dr. Thomas Insel, and NINDS Director Dr. Story Landis author an article in Science: The NIH BRAIN Initiative.
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April 30, 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discusses sequestration and biomedical research on APR’s Marketplace.
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April 23, 2013
SciTM publishes Network News: Powering Clinical Research, co-authored by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins.
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April 5, 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins is ABC World News’ Person of the Week.
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April 5, 2013
NIH Director Francis Collins describes the new research plan for the BRAIN Initiative on NPR’s Science Friday
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April 4, 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discusses BRAIN with Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.
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April 3 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins discusses BRAIN on PBS news hour
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April 2, 2013
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins welcomes the President’s bold new Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.
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The Clock: The BRAIN Initiative (Whitehouse.gov)
- Read the Transcript: Transcript of NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins’ Videotaped Remarks On the BRAIN Initiative
- Video of Remarks by NIH Director Collins and the President
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of Open for Questions with NIH Director Francis Collins (Whitehouse.gov)
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The Clock: The BRAIN Initiative (Whitehouse.gov)
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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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