Verily Life Sciences

Verily

Formerly called	Google Life Sciences
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Health care Biotechnology
Founded	December 7, 2015
Key people	Andrew Conrad (CEO)
Parent	Alphabet Inc. (2015–present)
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 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

• Contact lenses that allow people with diabetes to continually check their glucose levels using a non-intrusive method.^[9]
• A spoon for people with tremors.^[10]
• The Baseline Study, a project to collect genetic and molecular information from enough people to create a picture of what a healthy human should be.^[11]
• A health-tracking wristband.^[12]
• A disease-detecting nanoparticle platform.^[13] working with the wristband, a project called Tricorder^[14]
• Advancements in surgical robotics, in partnership with Johnson & Johnson.^[15]
• Development and commercialization of bioelectronic medicines, in partnership with GlaxoSmithKline^[16]

See also

• Google X
• Calico

References

1. "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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyv0_GIGSbY, retrieved 2015-12-07 Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. Barr, Alistair (Jul 25, 2014). "Meet the Google X Life Sciences Team". blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
7. linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdepristo. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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. Rushe, Dominic (2014-11-25). "Google launches 'smart' spoon to help steady shaking hands". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
11. Kaiser, Jocelyn (28 July 2014). "Google X sets out to define healthy human | Science/AAAS | News". news.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
12. Chen, Caroline (23 June 2015). "Google Reveals Health-Tracking Wristband". Bloomberg. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
13. Gibbs, Samuel (29 October 2014). "Google is developing a cancer and heart attack-detecting pill". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
14. "'Silicon Valley arrogance'? Google misfires as it strives to turn Star Trek technology into reality". 6 June 2016.
15. Ackerman, Evan (3 March 2016). "Google and Johnson & Johnson Conjugate to Create Verb Surgical, Promise Fancy Medical Robots". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
16. Pandey, Avaneesh (1 August 2016). "GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Teams Up With Alphabet (GOOGL) Subsidiary Verily Life Sciences To Make Bioelectronic Medicines". International Business Times. Retrieved 1 August 2016.