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Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 70,000 employees worldwide, with a wide range of popular products and platforms like Search, Maps, Ads, Gmail, Android, Chrome, and YouTube. In October 2015, Alphabet became the parent holding company of Google.YEAR FOUNDED:
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As the capabilities have been proven, AI is establishing a firm foothold in the key areas of R&D, drug development, clinical trials, and, to some extent, patient-facing products.
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President Joe Biden has nominated former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf to reprise his role at the agency’s helm.
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Isomorphic Laboratories has expressed plans to foray into drug discovery and development by tapping into the technology of its sister company DeepMind.
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Verily announced a strategic collaboration deal with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi and six major health systems.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly seen as a tool in biopharma and life sciences to improve drug development. Google, as one of the biggest corporations on Earth, is very interested in the use of AI and health care.
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With the holidays over and the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference next week, companies were clearly revving their engines, ready to race into the new year. Here’s a roundup of some of the top deals that were announced today.
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The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging was launched in 1958 by the National Institutes of Health. The idea was to follow and study the lives of healthy, active people over their lifetimes, rather than after they were dead.
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In what appears to be a trend, big pharma company AbbVie is leasing 479,000 square feet of space inBioMed Realty’s Gateway of Pacific project in South San Francisco.
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Recently, 23andMe partnered with GlaxoSmithKline, causing the Forbes Technology Council to cite eight ways these types of partnerships will affect disease treatments. These types of partnerships aren’t exactly new.
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Taiho Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Taiho Pharmaceutical, has pumped up its venture capital pool from $50 million to $300 million. It also indicates it plans to accelerate its “open innovation” through the investments.
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Forbes came out with its ranking of the World’s Best Employers 2018, with a number of global biopharmaceutical companies ranked high on the list. Here’s the top 10 in that category.
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Alphabet Stock Split: Will the Google Parent Ever Split Again?
5/11/2017
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Could Alphabet And Apple Be 2 Of The Best Healthcare Stocks On The Market?
4/24/2017