James D. Watson on the Tropic topic of cancer:
Restarting the War on Cancer has to start at the top: in 1971, Congress decided that the president, not the head of the National Institutes of Health, should appoint the director of the National Cancer Institute. Yet like all too many outposts of the White House, the institute has become a largely rudderless ship in dire need of a bold captain who will settle only for total victory.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."