Able Quote by Laurie Glimcher

Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need…

— Laurie Glimcher

Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.

— Joe Lonsdale

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it…

— Eric Topol

Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it…

— Francis Collins

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding…

— Harold E. Varmus

The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and cures.

— Scott Gottlieb

When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics,…

— Christopher G. Chute

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

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

— Eric Lander

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

— Anne Wojcicki