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Article: CF Foundation Supports President Obama's Nomination of Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., as New NIH Director
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 9, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Laurie Fink, Director of Media Relations of the Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation, +1-301-841-2602, lfink@cff.org
BETHESDA, Md., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation commends the nomination by President Obama of
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., as the new director of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
"The CF Foundation is pleased that Dr. Collins, who was pivotal
in the discovery of the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, may
lead the NIH during a time when the expanding role of science is
being highlighted by President Obama," said Robert J. Beall, Ph.D.,
president and CEO of the CF Foundation.
"By leading the world's premier medical ...