"We're approaching obesity from many points of view, " says Kari Stefansson , chief executive of DeCode.
"The things that are included will increase exponentially over time, " says deCODE founder Kari Stefansson .
The scientist Kari Stefansson is unlocking the secrets of diabetes, stroke and other killers by probing the genetics of an entire country.
Chalk it up to the initiative of one man, a 6-foot-5 Viking named Kari Stefansson, who founded DeCode Genetics Inc. in Reykjavik two years ago.
"This is the first glimpse of what the new genetics is going to give us, " says DeCode Chief Executive Dr. Kari Stefansson .
And it was this location that led to his first contacts with DeCode Genetics founder Kari Stefansson , then a professor at Harvard University.
Chalk it up to the initiative of one man, towering Viking named Kari Stefansson, who founded DeCode Genetics Inc. in Reykjavik two years ago.
"This is the strongest genetic risk factor yet" for osteoporosis, says Chief Executive Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured position at Harvard in the 1990s to found DeCode.
DeCode is a small, unprofitable biotech firm founded by the genetics visionary Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured post at Harvard University to go back to Iceland and probe the genetics of an entire country.
"Obesity and thinness are two sides of the same coin, and with our partners at Merck we are working to identify the best targets for therapeutic intervention within this pathway, as well as compounds that are effective against these targets, " DeCode Chief Executive Kari Stefansson said in the statement.
"These difficult times in the market do not make it easy to look yourself in the face in the morning, " says DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) Chief Executive Kari Stefansson , a proud and imposing scientist with the build of a basketball player.
Led by company founder and CEO Kari Stefansson , the DeCode team showed that almost 30% of 779 heart attack patients in Iceland and 15% of 753 British heart attack patients had alterations in a gene called ALOX5AP that cause their arteries to produce unusually high levels of the bad leukotrienes.
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