Head of the National Institutes of Health speaks live at the NPC

Francis Collins
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.
Courtesy of the National Institutes of Health

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, discusses the latest in biomedical research and the hope it offers for human health. Collins speaks live at the National Press Club.

A pioneer in Cystic Fibrosis research, Dr. Francis Collins was part of the team that 20 years ago discovered the gene that causes CF. Today, he is better known as the director of the National Institutes of Health. President Obama has called Collins "one of the top scientists in the world."

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