Verily (Google) is hiring Computational Biologists

https://www.google.com/about/careers/search?src=Online/Job+Board/indeed#!t=jo&jid=228815001&

the role is described as 'hardware engineering' interestingly. the preferred qualifications are very loose...

• Demonstrated knowledge of core concepts in machine learning or probability and statistics.
• Willingness to learn molecular and cell biology, computer science, and statistics.
• Demonstrated effective written and verbal communication skills.

I bet they will be inundated with submissions! 

Put your application in! 

Verily Life Sciences new hires

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2016/05/google-alphabet-goog-verily-life-sciences-amgen.html

I guess scouting a company's recruitment page to understand the projects is a universally common thing. Interestingly this page even has a word cloud from the LinkedIn Profiles to see where the hires are previously from.


The new hires reflect the scope of the few Verily projects Google/Alphabet has allowed to escape to the public so far: a contact lens venture with Novartis AG for diabetics to track blood glucose levels, its buyout of a company with a spoon that counters shaking by Parkinson's disease patients and the big picture Baseline study, a deep research project designed to define a healthy human being."The future of biotech, medical and tech is going to coalesce. We've seen that with medical sensors that do more than count steps, artificial intelligence and virtual reality," Topol said. "All these things are going to have a big impact in medicine. It's a natural evolution." excerpted from @SFBusinessTimes 

Verily, I swear ... Google Life Sciences has a new name

V is no longer for Vendetta, under Alphabet, the new Google holding company, V is for Verily. Google Life Sciences division is now known as Verily. 

The front page is a splash of pulsating magenta and purple with the words 

"How can we use technology to create a true picture of human health?"

Reportedly in Stat News, CEO Andy Conrad said:"Only through the truth are we going to defeat Mother Nature"

Hmmm lofty aims indeed, not sure why you can't work WITH Mother Nature because I am pretty sure she wins all the time. 

Abandoned Shopping Mall Taken Over By Fish In Bangkok Image credits: Jesse Rockwell

Technology to create a picture of biodiversity health or just to visualise movement and trends is equally engaging! Check out iPhylo's map 

Related Links

http://www.itnews.com/article/3012593/googles-life-sciences-division-is-now-called-verily.html

http://www.betaboston.com/news/jp/alphabets-life-sciences-business-has-a-new-name-verily/

http://wap.engadget.com/2015/12/08/google-life-sciences-verily-spinoff/