Body of work could lead to health care breakthrough
18.05.12
Larry Smarr will never be confused with Raquel Welch, but the movie “Fantastic Voyage” is now a reality for Larry and may turn out to be his personal bid for Hollywood stardom.
Smarr, 63, the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership, has made his own body the intense focus of study using digital tools that will likely be affordable and available to all of us in the near future because of research and development being done at Calit2 and numerous other institutes and companies in San Diego.
His project started in 2000 when Smarr, 6 feet 1 inch tall and then weighing 205 pounds, moved to San Diego from Illinois, which he calls the “epicenter of the obesity epidemic.” Immersed in the Southern California healthy-body culture, Smarr decided to lose weight. He recently detailed his “10-Year Detective Story of Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine” in an article for The Strategic News Service, and he talked with us about his journey, but not in a shrunken submarine.
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com