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Alice Zhang        

Co-Founder & CEO of Verge Genomics, A Company Utilizing AI to Improve the Lives of People with Alzheimer's & Parkinson's

Alice Zhang is the CEO and Co-founder of Verge Genomics. Verge Genomics uses artificial intelligence to develop better drugs, faster for diseases like ALS, Parkinson’s Disease, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Zhang has been recognized for her work as a Business Insider "30 People Under 40 Transforming Healthcare", a Forbes "30 Under 30 Featured Honoree", MIT Technology Review’s Innovator Under 35, and SF Business Times’ 40 Under 40.

She currently sits on the board of directors at the California Life Sciences Association. Prior to Verge, she spent five years in the UCLA-Caltech MD/PhD program and received her BA degree from Princeton University in Molecular Biology. In her spare time, Zhang also is an angel investor and advisor for tech-enabled bio startups.

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Verge Genomics Completes Initial Financing to Discover and Develop Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Genomic Data
Verge Genomics, Inc. (Verge), a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on neurodegenerative diseases, announced today that it has completed a seed financing totaling $4 million. IA Ventures led the syndicate, which included Two Sigma Ventures, Draper Associates, Great Oaks VC, Slow Ventures, Karlin Ventures and private investors. Verge was recently launched through the prestigious YCombinator accelerator program...
CEO Alice Zhang speaks about Verge Genomics on "Targeting Orphan Diseases" panel
Verge Genomics CEO Alice Zhang was invited to speak on a panel featuring industry-leading biotechnology companies focused on orphan disease drug discovery at the annual Neurotech Investing & Partnering Conference. At the panel, Zhang discussed her experience co-founding and leading Verge Genomics and the Company's progress in its lead program in ALS. The panel focused on successful R&D strategies for addressing smaller rare disease markets...
No PhD, “No Fear”: Alice Zhang, 27, Aims Software At Neuro Diseases
It’s impossible to sum up a person with a word, a sentence, or even a paragraph. We all contain multitudes. But if a picture of 27-year-old biotech CEO Alice Zhang could emerge from a single line, it might be her response when asked to describe her first time through the whirlwind of the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco...

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