About Leroy Hood: Leroy Hood is an American biologist. He is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology.
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
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 variatio...
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
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 wa...
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
Life is a process of evolution.
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.
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
