Have you ever played the book game ‘finding waldo’? I thought I would share this brief article and see if anyone wants to post a comment sharing with us what they find ironic/problematic with this article that was the lead article in medicine’s premier journal-The New England Journal of Medicine. I will share what I found in a follow up post.

Opportunities and Challenges for the NIH — An Interview with Francis Collins
Robert Steinbrook, M.D.
Francis Collins, the physician and geneticist who was sworn in as the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August 2009, anticipates scientific opportunities and budgetary challenges. Although the NIH received $10.4 billion in new funding under the American Recovery and ReinvestmentAct, the money must be spent by September 2010 and the institutes’budget has otherwise been relatively flat since 2003 (see graph).1 Fiscal year 2011 begins on October 1, 2010, and prospects are uncertain.

Collins, 59, has led the Human Genome Project and directed the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH; his laboratory has identified many important genes. He also established the BioLogos Foundation, which addresses the interface between science and faith, and wrote a best-selling 2006 book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Some observers expressed concern that his personal religious beliefs would affect his judgments as NIH director.2 When he became director, Collins resigned from the foundation, ended his involvement in public discussions about science and faith, and provided reassurances that his agenda for the institutes is scientific, not religious.
(vol 361:1321-1323 October 1, 2009)