APSA Newsletter - Phi Psi » 2010 Winter, Volume 4, No. 2 » Physician-Scientist Spotlight: Francis Sellers Collins, MD, PhD

Physician-Scientist Spotlight: Francis Sellers Collins, MD, PhD

Hung Doan, University of Texas Medical Branch

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Dr. Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, will be delivering an address at the 2010 ASCI/AAP Joint meeting.  APSA is delighted to highlight Dr. Collins’ distinguished career in this issue of Phi Psi.  Dr. Collins was sworn in as the sixteenth director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August, 2009, before which, he served as the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).  His distinguished career began when he received a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.  From there, he attained his Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry at Yale University and later his Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1977.