Francis Collins Quotes (20 Quotes)

Conditions that we know have genetic contributions but which have been rather difficult to nail down, this set of power tools that the genome project is producing will accelerate this discovery process rather dramatically, and we're going to see the consequences of that in the next three to five years,

It's a huge deal. We now have the instruction book of our closest relative.

I think it's a time to be very excited and optimistic, ... within the next five to 10 years.

More than 300 genes have been implicated in the diabolical transformation of normal cells into cancer cells, and that has led to major insights into cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure.

This is not just an academic exercise by a bunch of nerdy gene hunters. This is an effort that will transform medicine.

By 2015, we will see the beginnings of a real transformation in the therapeutics of medicine, which by 2020 will have touched virtually every disorder, ... And the drugs that we give in 2020 will for the most part be those that were based on the understan

We need effective legislation to make those kinds of misuse illegal,

This is a stunning surprise, rather like finding out that the key to your house also works in the ignition of your car.

Four years ago, we took down the book called Homo sapiens, ... Today, we take down the book next to it on the shelf.

This is a pair of programs where the public is the main winner. The genome has been compared to a textbook, and what we're talking about today is an opportunity to learn how to read that textbook in a more precise way.

The question is if we do collect a lot of genetic material from people ... are you going to see those people then injured when their health provider or employer uses that information to take away opportunities. At the moment, in the United States particularly, those protections are not in place at a federal level.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting discoveries with implications for human health,

I find death terrifying.

You're going to see a proliferation of discoveries about the genetic contributions to diabetes and heart disease and high blood pressure and schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis and on down the list,

These revelations arrive almost five years early from the original predictions of not having this information until 2005, and here we are. We have the first draft of our own book of life and we've read it from cover to cover, and we've discovered some pretty amazing surprises,

The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer. Waiting another two years would have been too long. The biological research planets are aligned.

The hopes of the parent of a child with a birth defect, the hopes of a young man with a family history of cancer, the hopes of a couple caring for an aging parent are in some way advanced by our having this instruction book of an animal which is a model for all of those circumstances.

it's hard to overstate the importance of reading our own instruction book and that's what the human genome project is all about.

FTIs, originally developed for cancer, are capable of reversing the dramatic nuclear structure abnormalities that are the hallmark of cells from children with progeria,