Anne E Wojcicki is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and serves as CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe.
19 Facts About Anne Wojcicki
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Anne Wojcicki founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza to provide the general public access to their genetic information.
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Anne Wojcicki is a co-founder and board member of the Breakthrough Prize.
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Anne Wojcicki's parents are Esther Wojcicki, an educator and journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at Stanford University.
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Anne Wojcicki attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, where she edited the school newspaper The Oracle, and won a scholarship for her sports stories.
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Anne Wojcicki received a bachelor of science in biology at Yale University in 1996.
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Anne Wojcicki conducted molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health and at the University of California, San Diego.
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Anne Wojcicki was a health care investment analyst for four years, overseeing health care investments, focusing on biotechnology companies.
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Anne Wojcicki is best known as the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, a direct to consumer DNA testing company, which allows for consumers to test for ancestry and health risks.
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Anne Wojcicki founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza with a goal of providing common people access to their genetic information, which could further provide information on cures for diseases or treatments, especially with the help of Glaxo and their $300 million investment.
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Anne Wojcicki takes saliva samples that are mailed in by buyers, and processes the genetic information, posting the results online for the buyer to view.
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Anne Wojcicki is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell.
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Anne Wojcicki is a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company Xconomy.
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Anne Wojcicki is a co-founder and board member of the Breakthrough Prize.
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Anne Wojcicki has been closely involved in the downtown business district of Los Altos, California.
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Brin and Anne Wojcicki shared a family office called Bayshore Global Management to manage over $100 billion in assets, and jointly ran the Brin Anne Wojcicki Foundation until 2017.
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Anne Wojcicki joined The Giving Pledge in 2022, committing to donating most of her wealth.
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Anne Wojcicki's grandfather, Franciszek Wojcicki, was a People's Party and Polish People's Party politician who had been elected MP during the 1947 Polish legislative election.
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Anne Wojcicki's grandmother, Janina Wojcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library of Congress who was responsible for building the largest collection of Polish material in the United States.