Io­n­is finds new part­ner in a young biotech and its hope­ful founder

Om­ri Gottes­man came to the US from the UK 10 years ago, wide-eyed like many oth­ers.

The hu­man genome project was long-com­plete and, with great fan­fare, re­searchers were be­gin­ning to try and lever­age those in­sights in­to treat­ments. Mount Sinai School of Med­i­cine of­fered him a fel­low­ship fo­cused on just that: ge­nom­ic med­i­cine.

“At the time, there was a lot of hope and hype that we had solved health, and would be able to dis­cov­er and pre­vent every­thing and treat every­one,” Gottes­man told End­points News. It was the rea­son I came to Mount Sinai.”

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