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
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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

  4. 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.

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

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