2009
- August 7, 2009 – the U.S. Senate confirms that former NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will be the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH ). President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Dr. Collins on July 8. Dr. Collins, a physician-geneticist who led NHGRI from 1993 to 2008, managed the NIH component of the international Human Genome Project.
- November 7. NIH Appoints Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. to be Director Of The National Human Genome Research Institute. It is the first time an institute director has risen to lead the entire NIH and subsequently picked his own successor.
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