Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, appears to be the top contender for the post as President-elect Barack Obama's director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Collins, buttonholed today at a meeting of one of the Obama transition teams, answered "no comment" when asked if he aspired to the post. But Alan Trounson, head of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, admitted to Science: "That's the name I've heard most often."
Collins and Trounson were among the scientists and disease advocates at the meeting of Obama's agency review team for the Department of Health and Human Services.
—Constance Holden
Collins, buttonholed today at a meeting of one of the Obama transition teams, answered "no comment" when asked if he aspired to the post. But Alan Trounson, head of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, admitted to Science: "That's the name I've heard most often."
Collins and Trounson were among the scientists and disease advocates at the meeting of Obama's agency review team for the Department of Health and Human Services.
—Constance Holden
The nomination of Dr. Collins as NIH Director is a most visionary move for the Obama administration. His thoughtful insights combined with his broad medical and research experience/knowledge will serve our country in the finest possible manner as medicine reaps the promise of personalized medicine through continued genetic discovery.
- Betty Wolf
I would think University of Chicago Dean James L. Madara (Michelle Obama's former supervisor) would also be logical.