I've experienced both a failure to the
immune system in my family directly...
as I'm a cancer survivor and have understood exactly what the
devastating effects of cancer could be.
My wife has an autoimmune disease.
So, as a family, I've personally experienced what an
autoimmune disease is -- over decades --
and what a cancer experience is.
The opportunity to take the tools that
the Allen Institute has pioneered...
add that with the tools of the immunology component...
fuse this in an unprecedented
way to unravel complexity to help future patients
was all the motivation I needed.
If this model works, and we're really sure it will,
will have applications that
will go way beyond our first few diseases.
We'll see an impact trickle
across a large, large swath of problems.
you
