Ten years ago, a group of San Francisco State University alumni working at Genentech got together with the Michael Goldman, the university’s chairman of the biology department, to establish the school’s annual Personalized Medicine Conference. This year, the conference will revisit topics from its past ten years as well as exploring the future of personalized medicine ask speakers to reflect on how personalized medicine has changed their lives. We spoke to SF State’s Goldman and Dan Maher, one of the alumni who drove the creation of the conference, about the state of personalized medicine, the pace of advances, and what’s surprised them most about where we are today.