Alphabet loses control of Verily as life sciences unit pursues independence
Alphabet loses control of Verily as life sciences unit pursues independence
Engadget: Alphabet’s Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff. “Alphabet’s Verily was one of the company’s star “moonshot” businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of […]
Verily receives grant to build major Parkinson's molecular dataset
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/verily-receives-grant-build-major-parkinsons-molecular-dataset
Google life sciences offshoot Verily moving corporate HQ to Dallas
Move marks another step in North Texas’ transformation into one of the country’s premier biotech hubs.
Verily, a health care software company owned by Alphabet Inc., announced today that it is moving its corporate HQ from South San Francisco, Calif., to Dallas later this quarter, just under 3 years since it opened an office in North Texas.
For a company that was founded to "defeat Mother Nature," #Google's #healthtech company #Verily's latest pivot is strangely pedestrian.
It's turning its chronic care program Onduo into a new platform called Lightpath that prescribes #GLP-1s & collects wearable data (including from OTC CGMs for non-diabetic patients) with #AI
for @STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/11/google-verily-glp1-weight-loss-drugs-lightpath-onduo/
An unlikely CEO to take #Google's former moonshot factory #Verily to profitability:
Stephen Gillett doesn't have #healthcare experience, but he didn't have electronics experience before his Best Buy gig (besides being a gamer) and didn't drink coffee before his Starbucks gig.
(The #WoW reference isn't just a tease, either.)
https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/08/verily-ceo-stephen-gillett-alphabet/