“23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.”

Anne Wojcicki is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist. She co-founded 23andMe, a company pioneering genetic testing and personalized health data, and later launched Verily, a life sciences research arm of Alphabet. Her work centers on merging technology with medicine to advance preventive healthcare and genetic research.