2012 12 April Francis Collins interview

Francis Collins, interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, Rockville, MD, 12 April 2012. Francis Collins enjoyed an impressive career as a human geneticist at the University of Michigan—developing powerful methods for modern molecular genetics and co-discovering (with Lap-Chee Tsui) the genetic basis of cystic fibrosis—before rising to the directorship of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) in 1993. In this role, he replaced James Watson as head of the NIH HGP. The NCHGR became the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 1997. While at NHGRI, Collins founded the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) in 1994 and also became a chief proponent of the Bermuda Principles, fostering their adoption as government policies both in the U.S. and abroad. Collins became director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2009. This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. Keywords: Human Genome Project, HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy Meetings on Human Genome Sequencing, data sharing, science policy, genomics, genome, genome sequence, genetics, DNA sequence, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, NIH, National Institutes of Health, DOE, Department of Energy, Cystic fibrosis, National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Division of Intramural Research (DIR), NCHGR director, NHGRI director, NIH director, Francis Collins.