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OPTIMIZING WELLNESS. "P4 Medicine is the convergence of systems medicine, big data and patient (consumer) driven healthcare and social networks. Hood’s vision is that in 10 years each individual will be surrounded by a virtual cloud of billions of data points and that we will have the computational tools to analyze this data and produce simple hypotheses about how to optimize wellness and minimize disease for each individual. The patient’s demand for better healthcare will be the real driving force." " " http://lnkd.in/bbCh8W2 View in LinkedIn

PATIENT-CENTRIC MEDICINE. "P4 Medicine is a term coined by biologist Leroy Hood, and is short for "Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory Medicine." The premise of P4 Medicine is that, over the next 20 years, medical practice will be revolutionized by biotechnology."" " http://lnkd.in/bbCh8W2 View in LinkedIn

EUROPEAN VCS still have a pulse for early-stage deals, and are in sharp contrast to US VCs who have migrated to a myopic focus on digital health. Not only are European VCs investing early, they are also doing so in biotech and biopharma companies at a preclinical stage, which has not happened in the US for many years. European deals are also still very significantly undervalued. " " http://m.mddionline.com/node/10902?cid=nl.mddi01 View in LinkedIn

P4 MEDICINE" " http://lnkd.in/b-aCPJd View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH INTERVIEW. "the synthetic biology revolution of the past few years (beating Moore's Law by a factor of 6); his views on religion; his dyslexia, high cholesterol and other mutations; 23andMe and DNA testing in general; the difference between genetics and synthetic biology; transhumanism, faith, mirror organisms and mirror humans; intellectual property rights and patenting living organisms; genomics and longevity..."" " http://lnkd.in/deYWbm9 View in LinkedIn

LEROY HOOD MD PHD AND P4 MEDICINE." " http://lnkd.in/bkkfHqB View in LinkedIn

'REGENESIS' BY CHURCH (it has a ring to it): "imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom-produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity or biofuel to end oil dependency. Building a house would entail no more work than planting a seed in the ground..."" " http://lnkd.in/deYWbm9 View in LinkedIn

THE AMAZING LEROY HOOD. He was Founder and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology (Univ of Washington); developed the ink-jet oligonucleotide synthesizer (synthesized DNA chips); co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle); developed new microfluidics, nanotechnology and molecular imaging methods; now pioneering new tools that will move medicine from its current reactive mode, to a predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory mode (P4 medicine) over the next 5-20 years."" " http://lnkd.in/dvaB_Kg View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO SUPPORTED BY CHURCH. "In October 2012, Church published a book that he wrote with Ed Regis entitled 'Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves'. This was on a top ten Science book list." (George Church, of course). " " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE rather than just seeing the parts. "Systems medicine is an inter-disciplinary field of study that looks at the dynamic systems of the human body as part of an integrated whole, incorporating biochemical, physiological, and environment interactions that sustain life. It considers complex interactions within the human body to promote an individual’s health in light of their genomics, behavior and the external environment."" " http://lnkd.in/dqDBbpQ View in LinkedIn