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Purpose driven

There is a famous quote by Thomas Edison on the wall of Edison’s Parnell clinic. It states: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

No surprises then for where Jay Harrison and Rich Tangney found the inspiration for the name of their precision medicine business. That quote, although from an entirely different era, still sums up nicely what this business start-up is all about.

As Jay points out, the genesis for Edison is

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