As Francis Collins prepares to take the helm of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), opinions are divided about how the geneticist will steer the agency through its extraordinary funding boom.rnFollowing President Barack Obamas long-anticipated nomination of Collins on 8 July, Harold Varmus, NIH director from 1993 to 1999, and now president and chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, described him as "a terrific scientist, inspirational leader, superb manager, and adept politician. I have great confidence in his ability to lead the NIH in complicated times."
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机译：当弗朗西斯·柯林斯（Francis Collins）准备掌管美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）时，关于遗传学家如何通过其非凡的资金热潮来指导该机构的意见分歧。rn在巴拉克·奥巴马总统（Barack Obamas）期待已久的7月8日提名柯林斯之后，哈罗德·瓦尔姆斯（Harold Varmus）是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的主任，从1993年至1999年，现在是纽约斯隆·凯特琳纪念癌症中心（Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center）的总裁兼首席执行官，他将他形容为“一位了不起的科学家，鼓舞人心的领导人，高超的经理和熟练的政治家。在复杂时期领导NIH的能力。”
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