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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins and Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams testified on vaccines before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.…

Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, talked about NIH projects. Topics included advances made through the Human Genome Project, especially on cancer and ot…

Dr. Francis Collins and other National Institutes of Health leaders testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. They witnesses addressed the institu…

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins testified before the Senate Health Committee about ongoing science and research at NIH. He was joined by four of his colleagues who ans…

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and NIH Director Francis Collins testified about medical innovation before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Members asked them abo…

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Dr. Francis Collins testified on implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act. The law was signed by President Obama in December 2016 with the aim of acce…

Dr. Francis Collins was among the three witnesses who updated the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. The initiative, f…

Drs. Margaret Hamburg of the Food and Drug Administration and Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health testified on actions their agencies are taking to advance the field of medi…

Officials from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the University of Michigan Medical School testified on the state of biomedical innovation and the sear…

Dr. Francis Collins talked about the mission and role of the National Institutes of Health, its medical research priorities, and the impact of sequestration budget cuts on the agency and fut…

Dr. Francis Collins talked about the administration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which comprises 27 institutes and centers. He discussed the importance of the Genome Project t…

President Obama announced his new initiative, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Nanotechnologies (BRAIN). The program aims to to help researchers find new ways to treat, cure, and…

Dr. Francis Collins talked about recent innovations in medicine, including advancements in reusable drugs, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He also discusse…

The Department of Health and Human Services held a seminar to familiarize the media with government research on new technologies in the creation and production of seasonal and pandemic flu v…