Fierce Biotech October 31, 2019
Amirah Al Idrus

Foresite Capital has launched a new incubator with one goal in mind: to help usher in a transformation in healthcare.

Led by Foresite’s managing director—Vik Bajaj, Ph.D., a former exec at Verily and Grail—the incubator, dubbed Foresite Labs, will sit at the intersection of data science and healthcare.

“It is a transformation we’ve seen in many other industries that embraced wholesale the fruits of the information technology revolution,” Bajaj told FierceBiotech. “Healthcare is more difficult because systems are less responsive to the needs of patients than they should be, but it’s happening in many areas, from the basic experiments we use to understand biological causes of disease to how we measure whether the efforts of our clinical interventions are successful.”...

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