Eric Schadt: Why Biology Needs a Steve Jobs

August 9, 2012

August 10, 2012 | Merck. Sage. Pacific Biosciences. Eric Schadt's unconventional career has seen him land in 2011 as chair of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Department of Genetics and Genomics and director of the new Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology. In this interview, Schadt discusses his vision to spend $100 million launching Mount Sinai to the forefront of the genomics revolution—and why he's enlisting Wall Street quants, user interface gurus and Facebook's former data whiz to do it. Nature Biotechnology