Leroy Hood

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

If you know the mother’s genome and the father’s genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Leroy Hood

In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology – and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.

Leroy Hood

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Leroy Hood

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Leroy Hood

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

Leroy Hood

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

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

Leroy Hood

We don’t argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.

Leroy Hood

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

Leroy Hood