Verily

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Verily Life Sciences, LLC.

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legal form Limited Liability Company
founding December 7, 2015
Seat San Francisco
management Andrew Conrad
Branch Life sciences
Website http://verily.com

Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences ) is an Alphabet Inc. research company active in the life sciences . The company had until 10 August 2015 when Sergey Brin announced that the company would be an independent subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., a division of Google X . This restructuring process was completed on October 2, 2015. On December 7, 2015, Google Life Sciences was renamed Verily.

scientist

Since July 2014, the research team has included Andrew Conrad , founder of the LabCorp National Genetics Institute; Vik Bajaj, magnetic resonance imaging expert ; Marija Pavlovic, who studies the effects of radiation on DNA ; Alberto Vitari, a cancer biologist; Brian Otis, who worked on Google Venture's glucose-sensitive contact lens ; and Mark DePristo, who worked on the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) at the Broad Institute . Dr. Thomas R. Insel announced on September 15, 2015 that he was stepping down as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to join this department.

Acquisitions and Financing

On September 9, 2014, the Lift Labs division acquired the manufacturer of liftware .

Verily Life Sciences generated $ 1 billion in funding in January 2019. Andy Conrad remained CEO.

Projects

  • Development of comprehensive solutions that combine devices, software, medicine and professional care to enable simple and intelligent disease management for people with diabetes in a partnership with Sanofi .
  • A spoon for people who suffer from tremors .
  • The Baseline Study, a project to collect genetic, molecular, and wearable device information from enough people to get a picture of what a healthy person should be.
  • A health tracking bracelet.
  • A disease- detecting nanoparticle platform that works with the bracelet. A project called Tricorder .
  • Advances in Surgical Robotics, in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson .
  • Development and marketing of bioelectronic drugs in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline
  • Development of miniaturized continuously measuring glucose sensors (CGM) in cooperation with Dexcom
  • Contact lenses that enable people with diabetes to measure their blood sugar levels continuously and without impairment. On November 16, 2018, Verily announced that she had discontinued this project.
  • Smart shoes for health tracking and fall detection

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archived copy . Archived from the original on September 18, 2015. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Benedict Carey: Head of Mental Health Institute Leaving for Google Life Sciences . In: New York Times . 
  3. ↑ Sergey Brin: Google+ Post .
  4. ^ Google Life Sciences debuts a new name, Verily . In: STAT . Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ Introducing Verily . In: YouTube . December 7, 2015. Accessed December 24, 2017.
  6. ^ Alistair Barr: Meet the Google X Life Sciences Team . In: blogs.wsj.com . July 25, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  7. ↑ Mark DePristo's LinkedIn profile. In: LinkedIn. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Amit Chowdhry: Google Continues To Build Upon Its Life Sciences Ecosystem . In: forbes.com . September 10, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  9. ↑ Ron Leuty: Google life sciences spinout Verily lines up $ 1B investment . In: Silicon Valley Business Journals . January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
  10. ↑ Sanofi and Verily Life Sciences Announce Launch of Onduo, a Joint Venture to Develop Comprehensive Diabetes Management Platform - Sep 12, 2016 ( en ) In: www.news.sanofi.us . Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  11. ↑ Dominic Rushe: Google launches 'smart' spoon to help steady shaking hands . In: The Guardian . November 25, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  12. ↑ Jocelyn Kaiser: Google X sets out to define healthy human | Science / AAAS | News . In: news.sciencemag.org . July 28, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2014.
  13. ↑ Caroline Chen: Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband . In: Bloomberg . June 23, 2015. Accessed June 24, 2015.
  14. ^ Samuel Gibbs: Google is developing a cancer and heart attack-detecting pill . In: The Guardian , October 29, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2015. 
  15. ↑ 'Silicon Valley arrogance'? Google misfires as it strives to turn Star Trek technology into reality . June 6, 2016. 
  16. ^ Evan Ackerman: Google and Johnson & Johnson Conjugate to Create Verb Surgical, Promise Fancy Medical Robots . In: IEEE Spectrum . March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  17. ↑ Avaneesh Pandey: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Teams Up With Alphabet (GoogL) Subsidiary Verily To Make Bioelectronic Medicines . In: International Business Times . August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  18. ↑ Verily Life Sciences . In: verily.com . Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  19. ^ Brian Otis, Babak Parviz: Introducing our smart contact lens project . In: Google . January 16, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  20. ^ Brian Otis: Update on our Smart Lens program with Alcon . In: Verily Blog . November 16, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  21. ↑ Abner Li: Verily developing smart shoes for health and weight tracking, fall detection . In: 9to5Google , February 1, 2019.