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. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
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… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
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… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
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… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
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… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
