Francis Collins: Perbedaan antara revisi

| image = Francis Collins official portraitphoto.jpg

| caption = Collins pada tahun 2009

| president = [[Barack Obama]]<br />[[Donald Trump]]<br>[[Joe Biden]]

| term_start = 717 Agustus 2009

| term_end = 19 Desember 2021

| predecessor = [[:En:Raynard S. Kington|Raynard Kington]] {{small|(Actingacting)}}

| successor = [[Lawrence A. Tabak]] (acting)

| alma_mater = [[:en:University of Virginia|Universitas Virginia]]<br />[[Universitas Yale]]<br />[[:en:University of North Carolina School of Medicine|University of North Carolina,<br />Chapel Hill]]

Sebelum diangkat menjadi direktur NIH, Collins memimpin Human Genome Project dan berbagai inisiatif penelitian genomika lain sebagai direktur [[:en:National Human Genome Research Institute|National Human Genome Research Institute]] (NHGRI), salah satu dari 27 institut dan center pada NIH. Sebelum bergabung dengan NHGRI, ia memperoleh reputasi sebagai seorang "''gene hunter''" ("pemburu gen") pada [[Universitas Michigan]]. Ia telah dipilih masuk ke dalam [[:En:National Academy of Medicine|Institute of Medicine]] dan [[:en:National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], serta menerima [[:En:Presidential Medal of Freedom|Presidential Medal of Freedom]] dan [[National Medal of Science]].

Setelah meninggalkan kepemimpinan NHGRI dan sebelum menjadi direktur NIH, ia mendirikan dan sekaligus menjadi presiden [[:en:The BioLogos Foundation|The BioLogos Foundation]], yang mempromosikan discourse mengenai [[:En:relationship between science and religion|hubungan antara sains dan agama]] serta mengadvokasi perspektif bahwa kepercayaan [[Kristen]] dapat diselaraskan dengan penerimaan evolusi dan sains, terutama melalui pengembangan [[:En:evolutionary creation|kreasi evolusioner]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biologos.org/about |title=About The BioLogos Foundation |publisher=The Biologos Foundation |accessdate=May 3, 2014 |quote=We embrace the historical Christian faith, upholding the authority and inspiration of the Bible. We affirm evolutionary creation, recognizing God as Creator of all life over billions of years. We seek truth, ever learning as we study the natural world and the Bible. |archive-date=2011-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829121912/http://biologos.org/about |dead-url=no }}</ref> Pada tahun 2009 [[Paus Benediktus XVI]] mengangkat Collins ke dalam [[Pontifical Academy of Sciences]].

Collins dilahirkan di Staunton, [[Virginia]], sebagai yang termuda dari empat putra Fletcher Collins dan Margaret James Collins. Ia dibesarkan di sebuah pertanian kecil di [[:en:Shenandoah Valley|Shenandoah Valley]], Virginia, dengan [[:En:home schooled|pendidikan di rumah]] sampai kelas enam.<ref>Google Book Search [[The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=JcMCmBnpHGsC&dq=%22language+of+god%22+collins+homeschool&pg=PP1&ots=qQM1QRH3B5&source=bn&sig=mdeuF90uw_WdkUokgoXgrtMYBX8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA13,M1 Chapter 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725054807/https://books.google.com/books?id=JcMCmBnpHGsC&dq=%22language+of+god%22+collins+homeschool&pg=PP1&ots=qQM1QRH3B5&source=bn&sig=mdeuF90uw_WdkUokgoXgrtMYBX8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA13,M1 |date=2023-07-25 }}</ref> Kemudian ia bersekolah di [[:En:Robert E. Lee High School (Staunton, Virginia)|Robert E. Lee High School]] di [[Staunton, Virginia]]. Selama masa sekolah menengah atas dan perguruan tinggi ia bercita-cita menjadi kimiawan, dan ia kurang berminat pada bidang biologi yang dianggapnya "messy". Apa yang disebutnya "pendidikan formatif" diperolehnya di [[:en:University of Virginia|Universitas Virginia]], di mana ia meraih gelar [[:en:Bachelor of Science|Bachelor of Science]] dalam bidang [[Kimia]] pada tahun 1970. Ia melanjutkan sampai memperoleh gelar [[Doctor of Philosophy]] dalam bidang [[Kimia Fisik]] di [[Universitas Yale]] pada tahun 1974. Ketika di Yale, suatu mata kuliah biokimia membangkitkan minatnya. Setelah berkonsultasi dengan mentornya dari Universitas Virginia, Carl Trindle, ia berganti bidang studi dan kuliah di sekolah kedokteran pada [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], meraih gelar [[:en:Doctor of Medicine|Doctor of Medicine]] di sana pada tahun 1977.

Dari tahun 1978 sampai 1981, Collins bekerja dalam program residensi dan ''chief residency'' pada bagian ''internal medicine'' pada [[:en:North Carolina Memorial Hospital|North Carolina Memorial Hospital]] di [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina|Chapel Hill]]. Kemudian ia kembali ke Yale, di mana ia menjadi [[:en:Fellow|Fellow]] pada bagian Human Genetics di sekolah kedokteran dari tahun 1981 sampai 1984.

Di Yale, Collins bekerja di bawah direksi [[:en:Sherman Weissman|Sherman Weissman]], dan pada tahun 1984 kedua sarjana tersebut menerbitkan sebuah makalah, "Directional Cloning of DNA Fragments at a Large distance From an Initial Probe: a Circularization Method".<ref>{{cite web |author1=Francis S. Collins |author2=Sherman M. Weissman |title=''Directional cloning of DNA fragments at a large distance from an initial probe: a circularization method'' |publisher=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA |date=Nov 1984 |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/81/21/6812.full.pdf+html?sid=4509210e-8129-4da3-b99c-dd5829a5a9c2 |accessdate=September 29, 2011 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924164920/http://www.pnas.org/content/81/21/6812.full.pdf+html?sid=4509210e-8129-4da3-b99c-dd5829a5a9c2 |dead-url=no }}</ref> Metode yang dijabarkan dinamai ''[[chromosome jumping]]'' ("melompatkan kromosom"), untuk menekankan perbedaan dengan metode lama yang memakan lebih banyak waktu untuk menyalin fragmen DNA yang dinamai ''[[chromosome walking]]'' ("menjalankan kromosom").<ref>{{cite journal |author=Leon. E. Rosenberg |title=''Introductory Speech for Francis S. Collins'' |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-human-genetics_2006-09_79_3/page/419 |year=2006 |pmc=1559551 |pmid=16909377 |doi=10.1086/500276 |volume=79 |journal=Am J Hum Genet |pages=419–20}}</ref>

Collins bergabung menjadi pengajar pada [[Universitas Michigan]] pada tahun 1984, naik kedudukannya menjadi profesor dalam bidang kedokteran penyakit dalam dan genetika manusia. Pendekatan perburuan gen yang dinamainya [[:en:positional cloning|"''positional cloning''" ("kloning positinal")]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rowan.biology.ualberta.ca/courses/genet302/uploads/winter11/gane/private/genet302-GW-week3_noQ.pdf |title=Positional cloning of human disease genes: a reversal of scientific priorities |publisher=University of Alberta, Department of Biological Science |accessdate=October 16, 2011 |archive-date=2012-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425021226/https://rowan.biology.ualberta.ca/courses/genet302/uploads/winter11/gane/private/genet302-GW-week3_noQ.pdf |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Collins F |year=1992 |title=Positional Cloning: Let's not call it reverse anymore |url= |journal=Nature Genetics |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=3–6 |doi=10.1038/ng0492-3 |pmid=1301996}}</ref> berkembang menjadi suatu komponen yang sangat berguna bagi genetika molekuler modern.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0959437X95800425 |title=Positional cloning reaches maturity |last=Nelson |first=David L. |date=Jun 1995 |journal=Curr Opin Genet Dev |accessdate=August 25, 2014 |doi=10.1016/0959-437X(95)80042-5 |pmid=7549422 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=298–303 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145049/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0959437X95800425 |dead-url=no }}</ref>

Several scientific teams worked in the 1970s and 1980s to identify genes and their loci as a cause of [[cystic fibrosis]]. Progress was modest until 1985, when [[Lap-Chee Tsui]] and colleagues at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children identified the locus for the gene.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tsui |first=LC |author2=Buchwald M |author3=Barker D |title=Cystic fibrosis locus defined by a genetically linked polymorphic DNA marker |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_science_1985-11-29_230_4729/page/1054 |journal=Science |date=November 29, 1985 |volume=230 |issue=4729 |pages=1054–1057 |doi=10.1126/science.2997931 |bibcode = 1985Sci...230.1054T }}<!--|accessdate=May 9, 2014--><!--</ref> It was then determined that a shortcut was needed to speed the process of identification, so Tsui contacted Collins, who agreed to collaborate with the Toronto team and share his chromosome-jumping technique. The gene was identified in June 1989,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/a120.html |title=''Blazing a Genetic Trail/.../Jumping Toward the Gene'' |author=Pines, Maya |publisher=Howard Hughes Medical Institute |year=2008 |accessdate=October 16, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/a130.html |title=''Stalking a Lethal Gene:Discovering the Gene for Cystic Fibrosis'' |author=Pines, Maya |publisher=Howard Hughes Medical Institute |year=2008 |accessdate=October 16, 2011}}</ref> and the results were published in the journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' on September 8, 1989.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marx |first1=J. |year=1989 |title=The cystic fibrosis gene is found |journal=Science |volume=245 |issue=4921 |pages=923–5 |bibcode=1989Sci...245..923M |doi=10.1126/science.2772644 |pmid=2772644}}</ref> This identification was followed by other genetic discoveries made by Collins and a variety of collaborators. They included isolation of the genes for [[Huntington's disease]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=MacDonald |first1=M |year=1993 |title=A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes |journal=Cell |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=971–83 |doi=10.1016/0092-8674(93)90585-E |pmid=8458085}}</ref> [[neurofibromatosis]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundation of Medicine |first1=Raphael |last1=Rubin |first2=David S. |last2=Strayer |publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |edition=5th |date=2008 |location=Baltimore |pages=201–3 |isbn=978-0-7817-9516-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Fauci|title=Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Small textbook) |edition=16th |pages=2453|display-authors=etal}}</ref> [[multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chandrasekharappa |first1=S. C. |last2=Guru |first2=S. C. |last3=Manickam |first3=P |last4=Olufemi |first4=S. E. |last5=Collins |first5=F. S. |last6=Emmert-Buck |first6=M. R. |last7=Debelenko |first7=L. V. |last8=Zhuang |first8=Z |last9=Lubensky |first9=I. A. |last10=Liotta |first10=L. A. |last11=Crabtree |first11=J. S. |last12=Wang |first12=Y |last13=Roe |first13=B. A. |last14=Weisemann |first14=J |last15=Boguski |first15=M. S. |last16=Agarwal |first16=S. K. |last17=Kester |first17=M. B. |last18=Kim |first18=Y. S. |last19=Heppner |first19=C |last20=Dong |first20=Q |last21=Spiegel |first21=A. M. |last22=Burns |first22=A. L. |last23=Marx |first23=S. J. |year=1997 |title=Positional Cloning of the Gene for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia-Type 1 |journal=Science |volume=276 |issue=5311 |pages=404–7 |doi=10.1126/science.276.5311.404 |pmid=9103196}}</ref> inv(16) AML<ref>Science 261 (5124): 1041–4</ref> and [[Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eriksson |first1=Maria |last2=Brown |first2=W. Ted |last3=Gordon |first3=Leslie B. |last4=Glynn |first4=Michael W. |last5=Singer |first5=Joel |last6=Scott |first6=Laura |last7=Erdos |first7=Michael R. |last8=Robbins |first8=Christiane M. |last9=Moses |first9=Tracy Y. |last10=Berglund |first10=Peter |last11=Dutra |first11=Amalia |last12=Pak |first12=Evgenia |last13=Durkin |first13=Sandra |last14=Csoka |first14=Antonei B. |last15=Boehnke |first15=Michael |last16=Glover |first16=Thomas W. |last17=Collins |first17=Francis S. |year=2003 |title=Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin a cause Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome |journal=Nature |volume=423 |issue=6937 |pages=293–8 |bibcode=2003Natur.423..293E |doi=10.1038/nature01629 |pmid=12714972}}</ref>

Pada tahun 1993 National Institutes of Health Director [[Bernadine Healy]] mengangkat Collins untuk menggantikan [[James D. Watson]] sebagai direktur [[Human Genome Project|National Center for Human Genome Research]], yang kemudian menjadi [[:en:National Human Genome Research Institute|National Human Genome Research Institute]] (NHGRI) pada tahun 1997. Sebagai direktur, ia membawahi International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium,<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.genome.gov/11006939 |title="International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium," National Human Genome Research Institute] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2018-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121104644/https://www.genome.gov/11006939/ |dead-url=no }}</ref> yaitu grup yang berhasil melaksanakan [[Human Genome Project]].

Pada bulan Juni 2000 Collins bersama-sama Presiden Bill Clinton dan biologis [[Craig Venter]] membuat pengumuman suatu draft kerja dari [[:en:human genome|genome manusia]].<ref>Jamie Shreeve, "[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051031/31genome.htm The Blueprint of Life] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071130184339/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051031/31genome.htm |date=November 30, 2007 }}," ''[[U.S. News and World Report]]'', 10/31/05, URL accessed January 30, 2007.</ref><!-- He stated that "It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/17/nation/na-collins17/3 |title=Faithful to God, Science |last=Simon |first=Stephanie |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |accessdate=May 3, 2014 |quote="It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring," he said, standing at Clinton's side, "to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God." That moment moved Collins -- who is married and has two grown daughters — to talk more publicly about his faith and to write the book. "It's been a bit like taking a public bath," he said.}}</ref><ref name="Lennox2009">{{cite book |last=Lennox |first=John C. |title=God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? |year=2009 |publisher=Lion Books |isbn=9780745953717 |page=176 |quote=At the public announcement of the completion of the Human Genome Project, its director, Francis Collins, said: 'It is humbling for me and awe-inspiring to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God.'}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/26/bn.01.html |title=President Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair Deliver Remarks on Human Genome Milestone |date=June 26, 2000 |publisher=[[CNN]] |accessdate=May 3, 2014}}</ref> An initial analysis was published in February 2001, and scientists worked toward finishing the reference version of the human genome sequence by 2003, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of [[James D. Watson]] and [[Francis Crick]]'s publication of the structure of [[DNA]].

Pada tanggal 8 Juli 2009, Presiden Barack Obama menominasikan Collins sebagai Direktur National Institutes of Health,<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Intent-to-Nominate-Francis-Collins-as-NIH-Director/ |title="President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Francis Collins as NIH Director," Press Office, the White House, July 8, 2009] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2012-09-21 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6AqE0mUL4?url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Intent-to-Nominate-Francis-Collins-as-NIH-Director/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dan Senate dengan suara bulat memberi konfirmasi baginya untuk jabatan itu. Ia disumpah oleh Health and Human Services Secretary [[Kathleen Sebelius]] pada tanggal 7 Agustus 2009.<ref name="hhs">[http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/08/20090807d.html Secretary Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Dr. Francis Collins as Director of the National Institutes of Health] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810220431/http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/08/20090807d.html |date=2009-08-10 }} 7-Aug-09</ref>

Tercatat bahwa Collins suka bermain [[gitar]] dan naik [[sepeda motor]] di berbagai artikel mengenainya.<ref>*[http://www.slate.com/id/2222562 "Jesus Goes to Bethesda: Just how religious is Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820043121/http://www.slate.com/id/2222562/ |date=2011-08-20 }}. Chris Wilson. [[Slate (majalah)|Slate]]. July 9, 2009</ref>

Ketika menjadi direktur NHGRI, ia membentuk sebuah band rock dengan para ilmuwan NIH lain. Kadang-kadang band yang dinamai "The Directors" itu bermain bersama band rock dari [[Johns Hopkins University]], yang dipimpin oleh peneliti kanker [[Bert Vogelstein]]. Lirik dari lagu-lagu The Directors meliputi ''spoofs'' lagu-lagu klasik rock dan gospel yang kata-katanya diubah untuk menjawab tantangan riset biomedis kontemporer.<ref>*[http://www.nih.gov/catalyst/back/98.01/battle_of_bands.html "Science Writers Entertained By High-Powered Battle Of The Bands"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703174657/http://www.nih.gov/catalyst/back/98.01/battle_of_bands.html |date=2009-07-03 }}. ''The NIH Catalyst''. Celia Hooper. Jan/Feb 1998.</ref> Collins pernah tampil pada [[TEDMED]] 2012, StandUpToCancer,<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/18/science/la-sci-francis-collins-jams-20100918 |title=To scientists, he's the real rock star |last=Kaplan |first=Karen |date=September 18, 2010 |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate= |archive-date=2015-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920030726/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/18/science/la-sci-francis-collins-jams-20100918 |dead-url=no }}</ref> and Rock Stars of Science.<ref>[http://www.geoffreybeene.com/pdf/RSOS_Program.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521012139/http://www.geoffreybeene.com/pdf/RSOS_Program.pdf |date=2014-05-21 }} Rock S.O.S. program, 2009</ref>

Sewaktu memimpin [[:en:National Human Genome Research Institute|National Human Genome Research Institute]], Collins diangkat masuk ke dalam [[:en:Institute of Medicine|Institute of Medicine]] dan [[:en:United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. Ia menerima penghargaan [[Kilby International Awards]] pada tahun 1993, dan [[Biotechnology Heritage Award]] bersama [[J. Craig Venter]] pada tahun 2001.<ref name=CHF>{{cite web|title= Biotechnology Heritage Award|url=https://www.chemheritage.org/node/285|website=[[Chemical Heritage Foundation]]|accessdate=February 5, 2014|archive-date=2017-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013014313/https://www.chemheritage.org/node/285|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name=Strickland>{{cite news |last=Strickland |first=Debbie |title=Genomic Leaders Receive 2001 Biotechnology Heritage Award |url=http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/genomic-leaders-receive-2001-biotechnology-heritage-award |accessdate=February 5, 2014 |publisher=BIO |date=June 13, 2001 |archive-date=2015-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109031918/https://www.bio.org/media/press-release/genomic-leaders-receive-2001-biotechnology-heritage-award |dead-url=no }}</ref> Ia menerima penghargaan [[William Allan Award]] dari [[American Society of Human Genetics]] pada tahun 2005. Pada tahun 2007 ia dianugerahi [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2007/11_30_2007/story4.htm |title=NIH Record – ''Collins Wins Presidential Medal of Freedom''] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2010-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528170001/http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2007/11_30_2007/story4.htm |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Pada tahun 2008 ia diberi penghargaan "Inamori Ethics Prize"<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://case.edu/events/inamori/prize/pastrecipients.html |title="Inamori Ethics Prize, Past Recipients," Case Western Reserve University] {{webarchive|access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2012-09-10 |archive-url=httphttps://www.webcitation.org/6AaCjPusF?url=http://case.edu/events/inamori/prize/pastrecipients.html |datedead-url=2012-09-10no }}</ref> dan [[National Medal of Science]].<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=5300000000451 |title=National Science Foundation – The President's National Medal of Science] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2012-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015222645/http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=5300000000451 |dead-url=no }}</ref> Pada tahun yang sama, Collins memenangkan [[:en:Trotter Prize (Texas A&M)|Trotter Prize]] di mana ia memberikan kuliah berjudul "The Language of God" ("Bahasa Allah").

Collins dan Venter berbagi gelar "Biography of the Year" dari [[A&E Network]] pada tahun 2000.<ref>"[http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc/news/press/00-463.html Montgomery County, Maryland, Press Releases] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061013151412/http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mc/news/press/00-463.html |date=October 13, 2006 }}," December 19, 2000, URL accessed January 30, 2007.</ref> Pada tahun 2005, Collins dan Venter diberi kehormatan sebagai dua dari "America's Best Leaders" oleh [[U.S. News & World Report]] dan Harvard University [[Center for Public Leadership]].<ref>"[http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/usnews/genome.html U.S. News & World Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123055322/http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/leadership/usnews/genome.html |date=2008-01-23 }}," 2005, URL accessed February 4, 2008.</ref>

Collins menerima hadiah [[Albany Medical Center Prize]] pada tahun 2010 dan "Pro Bono Humanum Award" dari Galien Foundation pada tahun 2012.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.nih.gov/about/director/10162012_speech_prixgalien.htm |title="Dr. Collins' Acceptance Remarks on the Pro Bono Humanum Award of the Galien Foundation," National Institutes of Health, October 16, 2012] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2013-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727163644/http://www.nih.gov/about/director/10162012_speech_prixgalien.htm |dead-url=yes }}</ref>

Sampai masa kuliah pasca-sarjana Collins mengaku sebagai seorang [[ateisme|ateis]]. Namun, setelah menangani pasien yang hampir mati ia mempertanyakan pandangan agamawinya sendiri, dan menyelidiki berbagai kepercayaan. Ia mempelajari bukti yang mendukung atau menyangkal adanya Allah dalam kosmologi, dan menggunakan buku ''[[Mere Christianity]]'' tulisan [[C. S. Lewis]] sebagai landasan untuk memeriksa pandangan agamawinya.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2006/08/07/collins_6/ |title=Steve Paulson, "The Believer," Salon.com, Aug. 7, 2006] |access-date=2017-04-30 |archive-date=2023-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629071108/https://www.salon.com/2006/08/07/collins_6/ |dead-url=no }}</ref> Akhirnya ia mencapai suatu kesimpulan dan menjadi orang Kristen pada waktu berjalan-jalan di suatu siang pada musim gugur. Ia menyatakan diri sebagai seorang "Kristen yang serius".<ref name=interview />

In a 1998 interview with ''[[Scientific American]]'', Collins stated that he is "intensely uncomfortable with abortion as a solution to anything" and does not "perceive a precise moment at which life begins other than the moment of conception". However, in the same interview it was clarified that Collins also "does not advocate changing the law".<ref>{{cite journal|first=|date=|year=1998|title=Profile: Where Science and Religion Meet|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_scientific-american_1998-02_278_2/page/28|journal=[[Scientific American]]|volume=278|issue=2|pages=28–29|author=Beardsley T}}</ref>

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* [http://www.asa3.org/ASA/newsletter/julaug09.pdf "Collins Forms BioLogos Foundation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411085243/https://www.asa3.org/ASA/newsletter/julaug09.pdf |date=2023-04-11 }}. ''Newsletter of the [[American Scientific Affiliation]]''. Jul/Aug 2009

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