FORA.tv Speaker - Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki is the co-founder of 23andMe. She brings to 23andMe a 10-year background in healthcare investing, focused primarily on biotechnology companies. Wojcicki left the investing world with the hope that she could have a positive impact on research and medicine through 23andMe. From her vantage point, Wojcicki saw a need for creating a way to generate more information - especially more personalized information - so that commercial and academic researchers could better understand and develop new drugs and diagnostics. By encouraging individuals to access and learn about their own genetic information, 23andMe will create a common, standardized resource that has the potential to accelerate drug discovery and bring personalized medicine to the public. (Plus, getting access to her own genetic information and understanding it has always been one of Wojcicki's ambitions.) Wojcicki graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in biology.