Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood is an American biologist. He is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 October 1938
CountryUnited States of America
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I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
opportunity donation enormous
For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities...
cloning wanted
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
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In the end, what counts is what you do.
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The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
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Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
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New ideas require new structures.
thinking order world
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
thinking office community
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.
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If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.
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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.
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The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.