Leroy Hood

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Leroy Hood

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Leroy Hood

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won’t be simple.

Leroy Hood

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Leroy Hood

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the life science drug discovery and development process.

Leroy Hood

I think the real problem is it’s easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

Leroy Hood

Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.

Leroy Hood

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

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

Leroy Hood

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.

Leroy Hood