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Leroy Hood
American
Scientist
Born:
Oct 10
,
1938
About
Disease
Genes
Get
Will
You
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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.
Leroy Hood
You
Change
World
Vision
Problems
Power
Community
Thinking
Change The World
Way
Paradigm
About
Global
Underestimate
Industry
Contribute
Office
Movement
Whether
Your
Belief
Fundamentally
Need
Core
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
Leroy Hood
Today
You
Wellness
Understanding
About
Look
Healthcare
Disease
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.
Leroy Hood
You
School
Those
Details
Memorize
Computer
Most
Learn
Going
Us
Your
Medical
Medical School
Things
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
Leroy Hood
Wellness
Will
Become
Critical
Vital
Record
About
Part
Genome
How
Providing
Optimize
Information
Your
Sequence
Thereby
Medical
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
Leroy Hood
Science
Biology
Major
Information
View
Thing
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
Leroy Hood
Health
Wellness
Care
Will
Market
Outgrow
Prevention
Health Care
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
Leroy Hood
You
Change
World
Will
Changing
Changing The World
Easy
Pursuit
Profoundly
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
You
People
Treat
Approved
Percent
Rate
Only
Go
Cure
Get
Meant
Your
The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.
Leroy Hood
Will
Biology
Medicine
Approach
Systems
Dominant
Theme
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
Leroy Hood
About
Individuality
Unique
Humans
The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.
Leroy Hood
Project
Given
Genetic
Genome
Parts
List
Human
Us
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
Leroy Hood
Startup
Tries
Stays
About
Because
Does
Goes
Microsoft
Against
Chance
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.
Leroy Hood
You
Cancer
Type
Types
Knowing
Without
Five
Optimize
Person
Disease
Different
Breast Cancer
Them
Different Types
Four
Treatment
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.
Leroy Hood
Time
You
Cancer
Will
Drop
Predict
Medicine
Percent
Preventive
Take
Genome
Breast Cancer
Personalized
Might
Your
Chance
Starting
By The Time
Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.
Leroy Hood
Networks
Concentration
Proteins
Alzheimer
Brain
Blood
Disease
Influence
Different
Form
Should
Measured
Each
I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.
Leroy Hood
Good
Genes
Also
Exercises
Lots
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 point of view of commercialisation.
Leroy Hood
Out
Point
Point Of View
Partial
Genome
Doing
Were
Any
Just
Want
View
Companies
My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
Leroy Hood
Knowledge
Better
Own
About
My Own
Always
View
Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
Leroy Hood
Alone
Rely
Grants
Many
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
Leroy Hood
You
Prevailing
Points
Push
New
Ideas
Majority
New Ideas
Listen
Them
View
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.
Leroy Hood
Future
Time
Best
Health
People
Mental Health
Problem
Some People
Other
Would
Would-Be
Some
Gene
Mental
Disaster
Know
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