44 Quotes by Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

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.

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

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

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

Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.

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.

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