Why Hasn't Clinical Genetics Taken Off?
Insiders to genomics are looking around and, generally over a tasty adult beverage, bemoan the lack of forward progress on the clinical side of adoption. Why haven clinical adoption rates gone up faster? What’s making this hard? I’ve become frustrated over the last few years, raising a significant amount of money across a number of companies, all trying to speed up the scale of adoption in the non-sick population. Looking back, looking around and seeing how the current landscape of startups and new activities in clinical genetics are being run, I’ve come to the following conclusions.