NIH nominee draws scrutiny
By NATURE.COM
Added: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:00:00 UTC
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090715/full/460310a.html
Francis Collins is likely to face funding challenges — and criticism of his Christian evangelism.
Meredith Wadman
As Francis Collins prepares to take the helm of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), opinions are divided about how the geneticist will steer the agency through its extraordinary funding boom.
Following President Barack Obama's long-anticipated nomination of Collins on 8 July, Harold Varmus, NIH director from 1993 to 1999, and now president and chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, described him as "a terrific scientist, inspirational leader, superb manager, and adept politician.
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