AI and the future of human health
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🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Biomedicine pioneer Leroy Hood says that artificial intelligence will play a key role in the future of healthcare by accelerating the progress of "scientific wellness," an approach that he has championed for many years.
Hood, co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology, delves into this approach in his new book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness,” which he wrote with co-author Nathan Price, an ISB professor and chief scientific officer of Thorne HealthTech.
In this week's GeekWire Podcast we talk with Hood about the book, how AI is key to the future of medicine, and what the average person can do now to live a healthy life.
"AI will be the core foundation for the diagnosis and delivery of actionable possibilities for the information that comes from data-driven health in the future," he said. "It will be able to take each individual and map out exactly how they should optimize their health and keep track of it."
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| 0:00.0 | My own feeling is just with what we know about scientific wellness and healthy aging and so forth now |
| 0:06.6 | I think for ordinary people we could guarantee that their health span will equal their lifespan and |
| 0:15.9 | that their lifespan and health span will extend into the 90s or even into the |
| 0:21.1 | hundreds. Hi and welcome to GeekWire. |
| 0:25.0 | From GeekWire. |
| 0:29.0 | In Seattle, I'm Todd Bishop. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm joined here in the GeekWire Studios by my colleague Charlotte |
| 0:35.2 | Schubert who covers health care and life sciences. Charlotte it's great to |
| 0:39.0 | see you. Good to be here Todd. Charlotte you've been reading a very interesting book called The Age of Scientific Wellness. |
| 0:46.7 | It's a new book by someone I've actually gotten to follow over the years and talk to a number of times, Dr. Leroy Hood, and this is someone for folks who may not know him |
| 0:58.3 | who actually played a key role in some of the key life sciences discoveries of the 1980s. He was the leader of a team at |
| 1:07.4 | Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer and other innovations that gave scientists new insights into the hidden code of life. |
| 1:15.9 | Charlotte, on this episode you're going to be talking with Dr Hood about his new book. |
| 1:20.7 | What else should we know about him? Well not not only was the pioneer of DNA and protein sequencing, |
| 1:26.0 | he's also a Seattle scientific luminary, |
| 1:29.0 | he moved here after Caltech, and he was the founder of the Institute for Systems Biology which was established in the year 2000. |
| 1:35.6 | I think people should also know that he was recruited to the University of Washington |
| 1:39.8 | prior to that by none other than Bill Gates. |
| 1:42.2 | He's also played a role in founding several biotech companies including Amgen, |
| 1:45.8 | Nanostring, and Aravail. |
| 1:48.2 | He's also known as a proponent of what he calls P4 Medicine. |
| 1:51.2 | He says medicine should be predictive, |
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