Francis Collins, trained as a physician and as a geneticist, was the leader of the Human Genome Project and is now the director of the National Institutes of Health
A nice (and very short) little Q&A with Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150319-three-questions-francis-collins-nih-science/
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