Anne Wojcicki

Type: Person

Name: Anne Wojcicki

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Why We Can't Wait: Conference to Eliminate Health Disparities in Genomic Medicine

SAN FRANCISCO Researchers in genomic health disparities from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Stanford University School of Medicine have teamed up to hold the second annual " ." The theme of this year's conference will be the ... [Published EurekAlert! - May 22 2013]

Entities: Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Carlos Bustamante, Anne Wojcicki

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

23andMe Gene Analysis Shows Venture Conference Attendees More Likely to Go Bald

Participants at the National Venture Capital Association’s VentureScape conference were pleased to learn on Wednesday that they have a higher-than-average natural resistance to malaria, but were less happy to learn they might have a higher-than-average ... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - May 16 2013]

Entities: 23andMe Inc, Anne Wojcicki, Human Genome, Genome

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

23andMe Inc

The Era of Young: Fresh Brands Taking on Older Businesses

Now that the world strives for fresher, more specific approaches to address current issues, newly-born brands sometimes do a way better than recognized labels. In the era of start-ups, smart instant solutions turn to be much more effective—it’s explained ... [Published Popsop.com - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Organic, 23andMe Inc, NIKE Inc

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Anne Wojcicki: Science Education Fuels Innovation

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.If you are like a lot of Americans, you don't give much thought to DNA or genetic science in general. You should.We are in an incredible era of possibility where the technology used in genetic research ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Anne Wojcicki, Education, Genetics

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Arthur D Levinson

Eleven scientists, most of them American, were scheduled to be named on Wednesday as the first winners of the world’s richest academic prize for medicine and biology — $3 million each, more than twice the amount of the Nobel Prize. The award, the Breakthrough ... [Published Friends of Cancer Research - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Arthur D Levinson, Cancer, Anne Wojcicki, Rockefeller University, Shinya Yamanaka

First reported Mar 13 2013 - Updated Mar 13 2013 - 1 reports

Know your genome: what we can all gain from personal genetics | Anne Wojcicki

Discovering your DNA sequence is cheap and easy, and that genetic knowledge could change – even save – your lifeA decade ago, researchers completed what was one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time when they decoded the last of the three ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 13 2013]

Entities: Genetics, Human Genome, Parkinson's Disease, Genome, Anne Wojcicki

First reported Feb 26 2013 - Updated Feb 26 2013 - 2 reports

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin?s Wife Uses Google Glass To Record Video Of TMZ Reporter Who Doesn?t Know Who She Is

Anne Wojcicki, biologist and wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, attended an Oscar pre-party on Sunday, wearing Google Glass (a popular look within the family).TMZ has put out video from the event, in which the reporter asks her to demonstrate the ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 26 2013]

Entities: Sergey Brin, Google Inc, Anne Wojcicki

First reported Feb 21 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 2 reports

Facebook Ready For Google Glass, Zuck Talks To Brin [Report]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin (along with Priscilla Chan, Anne Wojcicki and Yuri Milner) announced a $3 million prize for medical reasearch on Wednesday. That was the big story.Behind the scenes, another story was ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 21 2013]

Entities: Sergey Brin, Google Inc, Google Glass, Facebook Inc

First reported Feb 21 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 2 reports

Noting the Inaugural Breakthrough Prize Awards

The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a new and narrowly focused Nobel-like initiative launched by a noteworthy Russian entrepreneur in collaboration with some of the high net worth individuals that the California start up community has produced ... [Published Fight Aging! - Feb 21 2013]

Entities: Breakthrough Prize, Life Science, Telomere, Yuri Milner

First reported Feb 20 2013 - Updated Feb 21 2013 - 8 reports

Google's Sergey Brin And Facebook's Zuck Team Up On High Stakes Science Prize

Google's flashy visionary and Facebook's hacker boy-king are putting their heads together - but they're not cooperating to drum up more likes or clicks, thank goodness. The pair, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have ... [Published ReadWriteWeb - Feb 21 2013]

Entities: Sergey Brin, Breakthrough Prize, Google Inc, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc

First reported Feb 18 2013 - Updated Feb 18 2013 - 1 reports

21 VIP Couples In Tech

Bangalore: If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. -Benjamin Franklin.People believe that with love comes; blindness and an absolute flaw in reason but that holds true only for the day when saint valentines weaves his magic. Today since we are ... [Published Silicon India - Feb 18 2013]

Entities: Mark Pincus, Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin

First reported Dec 11 2012 - Updated Dec 12 2012 - 6 reports

23andMe Raises More Than $50M From Milner, NEA, Brin, Google, Others

23andMe, Inc . said it raised more than $50 million in a Series D financing with new investor Yuri Milner joined by existing investors Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures and ... [Published PE Hub News - Dec 11 2012]

Entities: 23andMe Inc, New Enterprise Associates, Sergey Brin

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Why We Can't Wait: Conference to Eliminate Heal... [Published EurekAlert! - May 22 2013]
23andMe Gene Analysis Shows Venture Conference ... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - May 16 2013]
With VentureScape, VCs Look to Enliven Annual M... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - May 07 2013]
Who am I? Data and DNA solve one of life’s big ... [Published The Verge - May 07 2013]
The 2013 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissen... [Published Latin American Herald Tribune - May 04 2013]
The Era of Young: Fresh Brands Taking on Older ... [Published Popsop.com - Apr 25 2013]
Anne Wojcicki: Science Education Fuels Innovation [Published Huffington Post - Apr 24 2013]
Read more [Published Friends of Cancer Research - Apr 17 2013]
Unveiling your genetic compass [Published The Press NZ - Apr 16 2013]
Mountain View Executives Honored by Commonwealt... [Published Mountain View Patch - Apr 15 2013]
Los Altos, Palo Alto, LAH Individuals Honored b... [Published Los Altos Patch - Apr 15 2013]
Molecular biology professor David Botstein awar... [Published Daily Princetonian - Apr 14 2013]
Personal Genetics Plusses [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - Mar 14 2013]
Know your genome: what we can all gain from per... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 13 2013]
Silicon Valley Billionaires Eclipse Nobel Prize... [Published Singularity Hub - Mar 04 2013]
Sergey Brin?s Wife Uses Google Glass To Record ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 26 2013]
Sergey Brin’s Wife Uses Google Glass To Record ... [Published WebProNews Feed - Feb 26 2013]
Rich Kids Of Google Glass [Published TechCrunch - Feb 26 2013]
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 25th 2013 [Published Fight Aging! - Feb 24 2013]
Facebook CEO's new project [Published CNN.com - Video - Feb 22 2013]
Noting the Inaugural Breakthrough Prize Awards [Published Fight Aging! - Feb 21 2013]
New Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is misg... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 21 2013]
Silicon Valley Tycoons Bestow Surprise $33 Mill... [Published Popular Science - Feb 21 2013]
Facebook Ready For Google Glass, Zuck Talks To ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 21 2013]
Facebook Ready For Google Glass, Zuck Talks To ... [Published WebProNews Feed - Feb 21 2013]
Technology leaders launch prize of finding cure... [Published Topnews.in - Feb 21 2013]
Google's Sergey Brin And Facebook's Zuck Team U... [Published ReadWriteWeb - Feb 21 2013]
With $3M Breakthrough Prize in life sciences, t... [Published GigaOM - Feb 20 2013]
With $3M Breakthrough Prize in life sciences, t... [Published GigaOM Network - Feb 20 2013]
With $3M Breakthrough Prize in life sciences, t... [Published GigaOM Network - Feb 20 2013]

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23andMe Gene Analysis Shows Venture Conference ... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - May 16 2013] Participants at the National Venture Capital Association’s VentureScape conference were pleased to learn on Wednesday that they have a higher-than-average natural resistance to malaria, but were less happy to learn they might have a higher-than-average ...
With VentureScape, VCs Look to Enliven Annual M... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - May 07 2013] Colin Powell, Virginia Rometty, Dick Costolo, office hours with dozens of venture investors and a party with VC bands. These and more are on the agenda of VentureScape , the new name for the National Venture Capital Association’s annual confab next ...
Personal Genetics Plusses [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - Mar 14 2013] 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki discusses the benefits of personal genetics. read more ...
Silicon Valley Billionaires Eclipse Nobel Prize... [Published Singularity Hub - Mar 04 2013] Yuri Milner, billionaire Silicon Valley investor, recently joined forces with tech titans Art Levinson, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and their wives Anne Wojcicki (founder of 23andMe ) and Priscilla Chan to shower riches on a group of unsuspecting ...
Rich Kids Of Google Glass [Published TechCrunch - Feb 26 2013] You know, I’m sort of jealous . Because I’ve eaten something like three Po’boy sandwiches in the past three days, and every single time I’ve wondered, as I was eating, where the odd name Po’boy originated. But didn’t want to take out my grubby ...

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Facebook CEO's new project [Published CNN.com - Video - Feb 22 2013]
Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe Talks [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - Jan 12 2013]

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Art Levinson, Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Ma... [Published PR Newswire: General Business - Feb 20 2013]
23andMe Names Christine Castro, Neil Rothstein ... [Published PR Newswire - Oct 16 2012]