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Anne E. Wojcicki, Co-Founder and CEO of 23andMe

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Anne E. Wojcicki

Anne E. Wojcicki is an American business visionary who helped to establish and fill in as CEO of the individual genomics organization 23andMe. A previous Wall Street expert, Wojcicki collaborated with fellow benefactors Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza to begin DNA testing organization 23andMe in 2006. 23andMe is the simply immediate to-purchaser hereditary qualities testing organization cleared by the FDA for wellbeing tests, including ones for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

 

23andMe is a secretly held individual genomics and biotechnology organization situated in Sunnyvale, California. It is most popular for giving a direct-to-shopper hereditary testing administration in which clients give a spit test that is research facility broke down, utilizing single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, to create reports identifying with the client’s heritage and hereditary inclinations to wellbeing related points. The organization’s name is derived from the way that there are 23 sets of chromosomes in an ordinary human cell.

 

23andMe offers packs permitting individuals to ship off examples of their spit for hereditary examination, either to find more about their parentage, or their heritage and their future wellbeing. It has effectively offered packs to more than 10m clients around the world, so Wojcicki sits on a possible gold mine: the biggest hereditary examination data set on the planet.

 

Wojcicki is an individual from the Economists, an impromptu group of publication counselors for the tech news and media organization, Xconomy. In October 2013, Fast Company named Wojcicki “The Most Daring CEO”. She is a fellow benefactor and board individual from the Breakthrough Prize.

Starting at 2020, she is recorded as #93 in Forbes rundown of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.