Leroy Hood Quotes
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
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Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
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I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
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I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
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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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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
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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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If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
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Genes are natural resources.
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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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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
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Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
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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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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
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If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.
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Life is a process of evolution.
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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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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.
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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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The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
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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.