SCIENTISTS EXPRESS RELIEF AS COLLINS,FRANCIS IS NAMED NEW DIRECTOR OFNIH GENOME PROJECT - INVESTIGATORS FORESEE THE AGENCY PROGRAM TAKING ON A STRONG DISEASE-GENE FOCUS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP

WATSON'S SUCCESSOR: Researchers involved with the Human Genome Project say they are breathing easier now that a worthy successor to James Wa tson as director of the National Institutes of Health's component of t he international effort has finally been selected-University of Michig an geneticist Francis Collins.