Alice Zhang Biography

While pursuing an MD/PhD at UCLA, Zhang was shocked to learn a fact every drug researcher knows all too well: 90% of medicines that start human studies fail. "It's still largely a guessing game," she says. Her startup, Verge Genomics, is the latest in a long line of biotechs that think merging the latest in computer science with new technologies for decoding the human genetic code can provide a solution. What's special: Verge has the guts to target Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, areas most drug companies have abandoned as hopeless. The seven-person startup raised $4 million from firms including IA Ventures and Draper Associates, and assembled advisors including Alzheimer's luminary Paul Aisen, Harvard biotech guru George Church, and the chief medical officer of the biotech firm Alkermes. Using machine-learning algorithms to understand networks of genes is an exploding scientific field. Maybe this time, it will work as a business.

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