Priscilla Chan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
I spent years at UCSF seeing children with diseases that had no treatment. The question I always wanted answered wasn’t general\u2014it was specific to the patient in front of me.<\/p>\n Given this child’s genome, these symptoms, this cell type: what is the molecular failure? Which pathway is downstream? If we have five possible therapeutic strategies, which one is biologically plausible enough to test first?<\/p>\n Medicine often treats depression or hypertension like a single condition. The reality is they’re dozens of different diseases\u2014maybe hundreds. Each with unique molecular origins. And if we’re going to help each person, we need to be able to see and understand those differences much more clearly than we can today.<\/p>\n That belief is what led Mark and me to build Biohub<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>. And it’s why I find this moment so meaningful.<\/p>\n