Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 1/23-24/12, Part 1

"We want to let individual help advance research meaningful to them, rather than sitting on the sidelines."
~ Ashley Dombkowski, 23andMe

"Your DNA should not be the sole province of the scientific elite. It should be transformative for you—from Helix to Health."
~ Ashley Dombkowski, 23andMe

"Given my status, what is the best outcome I can hope to achieve and how do I get there." (the core patient question posed by)
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"If you have a way to make patients better, you can't make money on it today."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"The clinical system doesn’t capture data in any way that is useful for the patient."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"What we really want to do is not use amazing tech—we want to predict the future so we can change it."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"We don’t have a statistics problem or a public problem... (our problem is) we are not thinking of medicine as an ongoing learning system."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

"We are building an information resource that tells whether people we love will live or die, and (yet) we don’t give it to them!  We have to build ths system partnering with the patients... they are not subjects, they are participants."
~ James Heywood, PatientsLikeMe

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