Leroy Hood

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

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

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

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

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

Genes are natural resources.

Leroy Hood

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

Leroy Hood

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

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

Leroy Hood

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