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Leroy Hood

Profession : Scientist

Birth : October 10, 1938

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

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Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

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Life is a process of evolution.

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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

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For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

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If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

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Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

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Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

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An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

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What is unique about humans is their individuality.

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Genes are natural resources.

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We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.

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To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

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Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

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The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

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If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.

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Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

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The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

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Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

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