Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki
Anne E. Wojcickiis an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She was formerly married to Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 July 1973
CountryUnited States of America
biggest clinical studies
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.
future
Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future.
health
I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.
grew stanford
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
dinner heard mom six
I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
believe time
I do believe at some point in time everyone will be genotyped at birth.
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It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
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Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'
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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
drawn spit
Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.
government massive
There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.
people
There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?