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Leroy Hood on the inception of systems biology and 4P Medicine

Written by Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood is the Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Providence St. Joseph Health (WA, USA) and is a Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology (WA, USA), which he co-founded in 2000. Hood’s career has followed the development and automation of DNA synthesis and sequencing and he is currently working on a project called “Beyond the Human Genome.”   Hood has contributed to the development of several different technologies over his career, in particular: the gas phase protein sequencer, an automated DNA sequencer, a DNA synthesizer, a peptide synthesizer, an inkjet printer for constructing DNA arrays and...

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