23andMe Enters The Drug Business Just As Apple Changes It
Mar 12, 2015, 00:00 AM
by
Michael Croft
Forbes | 23andMe CEO and Founder Anne Wojcicki
23andMe, the Google-backed personal genetics startup, will no
longer just sell tests to consumers, or genetic data to
pharmaceutical companies. This morning, it announced that it plans
to start inventing medicines itself. It's not just talk. The
company has hired Richard Scheller, who led drug discovery at
Genentech.
March 12, 2015 | 23andMe CEO and Founder Anne Wojcicki 23andMe, the Google-backed personal genetics startup, will no longer just sell tests to consumers, or genetic data to pharmaceutical companies. This morning, it announced that it plans to start inventing medicines itself. It's not just talk. The company has hired Richard Scheller, who led drug discovery at Genentech. Forbes


