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Leadership | NHGRI

NHGRI Director

Judy Cho, M.D.

Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

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Previous NHGRI Directors

Name	In Office from	To
James D. Watson	1989	April 1992
Michael Gottesman (Acting)	April 1992	April 1993
Francis S. Collins	April 1993	August 2008
Alan E. Guttmacher (Acting)	August 2008	December 2009
Eric D. Green	December 2009	March 2025
Carolyn Hutter (Acting)	May 2025	August 2026
Judy Cho	August 2026	Present