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Anne E. Wojcicki is an American biotech analyst, biologist, and the co-founder of 23andMe. Wojcicki is the daughter of educator Esther Wojcicki and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, where she was... one of three students voted Most Likely to Succeed in the 1991 yearbook. She went on to graduate from Yale University with a B.S. in biology in 1996. After graduating, Wojcicki worked 10 years overseeing healthcare investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. In 2006, she left the investing world to co-found 23andMe with Linda Avey. Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in May 2007. They have a son, Benji, born in December 2008.
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Linda has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and... Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she developed translational research collaborations with academic and pharmaceutical partners for Affymetrix and Perlegen Sciences. Linda also spent time at Spotfire helping scientists understand the power of data visualization and at Applied Biosystems during the early days of the human genome project. The advent of high density genome-wide scanning technologies brought huge potential for significant discoveries. However, the lack of sufficient funding to enable adequate studies prompted Linda to think of a new research model. These ideas led to the formation of 23andMe. Her primary interest is the acceleration of personalized medicine, using genetic profiles to target the right drug to the right person at the correct dose. Linda graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in biology.
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Anne E. Wojcicki is an American biotech analyst, biologist, and the co-founder of 23andMe. Wojcicki is the daughter of educator Esther Wojcicki and... Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, where she was one of three students voted Most Likely to Succeed in the 1991 yearbook. She went on to graduate from Yale University with a B.S. in biology in 1996. After graduating, Wojcicki worked 10 years overseeing healthcare investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. In 2006, she left the investing world to co-found 23andMe with Linda Avey. Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in May 2007. They have a son, Benji, born in December 2008.
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