NIH Chief Francis Collins: Medical research 'ought to tell us what works'

Kaiser Health News staff writer Jennifer Evans talked to physician-geneticist Francis Collins, a person "who isn't afraid to think big about science. For over a decade, Collins led the Human Genome Project, overseeing the federal government's race to map people's DNA. The project finished in April 2003, some 18 months early and $300 million under budget, and has been transforming the understanding of human health and disease ever since. Today, as director of the National Institutes of Health, Collins is on a mission to guide his agency to use science to improve the nation's health system, starting with individual patients (Evans, 4/5). Watch the video.

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