John Wilbanks
John Wilbanks
John Wilbanks is the Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks and a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and at FasterCures. He runs the Consent to Research Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
biological company faster knowledge money possible selling
No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.
together body use
I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
opposites broken
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
naked spirit mediocre
Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.
numbers people increase
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.