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Verge Genomics' CEO Alice Zhang Named to MIT Technology Review's 2018 Innovators Under 35 List | ||
By: PR Newswire Association LLC. - 27 Jun 2018 | Back to overview list |
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Verge Genomics announced that CEO Alice Zhang has been named to MIT Technology Review's prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35 as an Entrepreneur. For over a decade, the global media company has recognized a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world. Alice has been a leader at the intersection of computational biology and life sciences for the last decade at the National Cancer Institute, the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, and UCLA. She graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude with high honors in Molecular Biology and subsequently trained for five years in the UCLA-Caltech MD/Ph.D. program investigating gene networks involved in neuro-regeneration. In 2015, she launched Verge Genomics from Y Combinator to discover and develop new drugs using machine learning. Zhang has received numerous awards for her work as a scientist and entrepreneur, including the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, the Forbes' 30 under 30 in Science, and the SF Business Times' 40 under 40 award. Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review, said: "MIT Technology Review inherently focuses on technology first - the breakthroughs and their potential to disrupt our lives. Our annual Innovators Under 35 list is a chance for us to honor the outstanding people behind those technologies. We hope these profiles offer a glimpse into what the face of technology looks like today as well as in the future." Learn more about this year's honorees on the MIT Technology Review website here and in the July/August print magazine, which will hit newsstands worldwide on July 3. The honorees are also invited to appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference, MIT Technology Review's flagship event exploring future trends and technologies that will impact the global economy, happening September 11-14, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. About Verge Genomics About MIT Technology Review Media Contact: MIT Technology Review View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verge-genomics-ceo-alice-zhang-named-to-mit-technology-reviews-2018-innovators-under-35-list-300672868.html SOURCE Verge Genomics |
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