Gaurav Singal was a successful computer scientist. The language of programming just clicked, he said. But there was a sense of purpose and meaning missing, so he headed off to medical school.
He is now vice president of data strategy and product development at Foundation Medicine, a company that was founded with that scientist-clinician mentality baked in. That's important, Singal said, because it helps the team think about the practical application of what they do with genomics, diagnostics, and data.