Verily

Verily Life Sciences, LLC.
Formerly
 Google Life Sciences
Subsidiary
Industry
Founded December 7, 2015 (2015-12-07)
Key people
 Andrew Conrad (CEO)
Owner Google Inc. (until 2015)
Alphabet Inc. (2015–present)
Parent Google X (until 2015)
Subsidiaries Lift Labs
Website verily.com

Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences[1][2]) is Alphabet Inc.'s research organization devoted to the study of life sciences. The organization was formerly a division of Google X, until 10 August 2015 when Sergey Brin announced that the organization would become an independent subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.[3] This restructuring process was completed on October 2, 2015. On December 7, 2015, Google Life Sciences was renamed Verily.[4][5]

Researchers

As of July 2014, members of the research team include Andrew Conrad, founder of LabCorp's National Genetics Institute; Vik Bajaj, an expert in nuclear magnetic resonance; Marija Pavlovic, who studies the effect of radiation on DNA; Alberto Vitari, a cancer biologist; Brian Otis, who worked on Google Venture's glucose-sensing contact lens;[6] and Mark DePristo, who worked on the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) at the Broad Institute.[7] Dr. Thomas R. Insel announced on Sept. 15, 2015, that he was resigning as the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to join this division.[1]

Acquisitions

On 9 September 2014, the division acquired Lift Labs, the makers of Liftware.[8]

Projects

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ Carey, Benedict. "Head of Mental Health Institute Leaving for Google Life Sciences". New York Times.
  3. ↑ Brin, Sergey. "Google+ Post".
  4. ↑ "Google Life Sciences debuts a new name, Verily". STAT. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  5. ↑ "Introducing Verily". YouTube. December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ Barr, Alistair (Jul 25, 2014). "Meet the Google X Life Sciences Team". blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Mark DePristo LinkedIn Profile". LinkedIn.
  8. ↑ Chowdhry, Amit (10 September 2014). "Google Continues To Build Upon Its Life Sciences Ecosystem". forbes.com. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Brian Otis; Babak Parviz (2014-01-16). "Introducing our smart contact lens project". Google. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
  10. ↑ "Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences Announce Launch of Onduo, a Joint Venture to Develop Comprehensive Diabetes Management Platform - Sep 12, 2016". www.news.sanofi.us. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  11. ↑ Rushe, Dominic (2014-11-25). "Google launches 'smart' spoon to help steady shaking hands". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  12. ↑ Kaiser, Jocelyn (28 July 2014). "Google X sets out to define healthy human | Science/AAAS | News". news.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  13. ↑ Chen, Caroline (23 June 2015). "Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband". Bloomberg. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  14. ↑ Gibbs, Samuel (29 October 2014). "Google is developing a cancer and heart attack-detecting pill". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "'Silicon Valley arrogance'? Google misfires as it strives to turn Star Trek technology into reality". 6 June 2016.
  16. ↑ Ackerman, Evan (3 March 2016). "Google and Johnson & Johnson Conjugate to Create Verb Surgical, Promise Fancy Medical Robots". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  17. ↑ Pandey, Avaneesh (1 August 2016). "GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Teams Up With Alphabet (GOOGL) Subsidiary Verily To Make Bioelectronic Medicines". International Business Times. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  18. ↑ "Verily Life Sciences". verily.com. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
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