Lab man: Microsoft's Phil Fawcett

28.12.2009

I am most fond of the projects that have had health effects; how you take a computational model and put it in an organic being and create a model of how that disease propagates. You can then take the existing analytical tools and apply it and solve that problem. It's not just about solving diseases that have existed -- it's also about treating and fixing existing problems. The meta point is combining multiple disciplines. So you take computer science, medicine and biology and put them together to create a solution. I think the age of specialty is great, but you really don't get the breakthroughs until you start combining things.