NIH Director Nominee Francis Collins May Push Translational Medicine Further Into The Agency Spotlight
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The physician-geneticist and former genome institute director likely will focus on personalized medicine during his tenure at the agency.
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