Mike Stratton

As we refined the sophistication of the approach and the mutation classification, the algorithms and the sequencing, it has become clear that this was a big challenge that would require coordinated investment and organisation, we have to collect five to ten thousand tumour samples and normal blood, we have to quality-control the DNA sequencing and do the data management and statistics -- it's a combination of large-scale epidemiology and large-scale genomics that haven't been married together in this way before.

The melanoma had something like 25,000 mutations, which was more than the world had ever seen in one genome, we could really see the signatures of the exposures that had taken place at an incredibly fine-grained resolution, and we could see all sorts of features and nuances that we hadn't noticed before.

She was the most fun, vivacious person you could ever imagine, she was full of life, we were always doing something. There are so many interesting places to go in Miami and we took it all in.