Romancing the Genome

"This is a worthwhile project that I'm proud to support," he says.

Perhaps no one in Arizona other than Mallery could have marshaled the amount of money from a variety of sources in such a short period of time. The shear magnitude of Mallery's effort — no matter the criticisms about the funding, scope and potential of the International Genomics Consortium — is impressive.

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Richard Mallery

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There is a fundamental difference in Mallery's role with this project than in past real estate deals that have made him a very wealthy man. Mallery says he expects no financial return from the time he's invested to bring the International Genomics Consortium to Arizona.

"I have received nothing, and I don't expect anything," he says. "I'm in this for the patient. I'm in this because my wife died of cancer in December."