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The Insider View of Navigenics

May 07, 2008

Over at ScienceRoll, Bertalan Meskó posts an interview he conducted with Dietrich Stephan, CSO of Navigenics. Stephan discusses his motivation for getting into human genetics, as well as why he cofounded the personal genomics company:

I started Navigenics with my partner David Agus, who is a clinical oncologist, to build the appropriate infrastructure to allow widespread assessment of genetic risks so that we, as a global community, could have a chance at effective prevention strategies to stave off a global health-care crisis in the next 50 years.

 

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