Pro­to­cols: Cal­i­co re­cruits a ma­chine learn­ing star for com­pu­ta­tion­al bi­ol­o­gy; On­coMed rais­es $55M

Google is all about mas­ter­ing com­pu­ta­tion­al bi­ol­o­gy these days. So it’s no won­der that its biotech start­up, Cal­i­co, is putting a big ef­fort to­geth­er on ma­chine learn­ing.

Daphne Koller, for­mer­ly a pro­fes­sor at Stan­ford and co-founder of Cours­era, has been re­cruit­ed to head up Cal­i­co’s com­pu­ta­tion­al team, with plans to work di­rect­ly with Google sci­en­tists on Cal­i­co’s R&D mis­sion: im­prov­ing hu­man longevi­ty. Said CEO Arthur Levin­son: “Over the past three years, we have fo­cused on build­ing a world-class team of sci­en­tists who are study­ing the bi­o­log­i­cal path­ways of ag­ing. With Daphne, we are bring­ing to Cal­i­co not on­ly one of the world’s fore­most ex­perts in ma­chine learn­ing, but some­one with a deep pas­sion for un­der­stand­ing how these new tech­nolo­gies could bring forth in­sights in­to the bi­ol­o­gy of ag­ing and dis­ease.”

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