Anne Wojcicki Quotes

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Anne Wojcicki

Profession : Scientist

Birth : July 28, 1973

I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.

Anne Wojcicki

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.

Anne Wojcicki

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

Anne Wojcicki

The fact that my environment influences my life so much - and that my environment is in my control - gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.

Anne Wojcicki

The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.

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Data helps solve problems.

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As the knowledge around personalized medicine continues to grow, consumers should expect their healthcare providers to begin to incorporate genetic information into their treatments and preventative care.

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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

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People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.

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There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?

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There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.

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One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

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Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

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Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges.

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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.

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23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

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Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future.

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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

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I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!

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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

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