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Verily, the life sciences group owned by Alphabet, laid off staff this week as part of a restructuring in its molecular sciences group, Business Insider has learned. Verily spokesperson Steven Cooper confirmed the cuts in an email to BI, stating that the affected employees worked on Verily's Immune Profiler project, which studies the human immune system for improving disease management. He declined to share the exact number of employees cut, but one source familiar with the situation said 35-40 people were affected. Verily is in the process of separating from Alphabet's infrastructure, part of a project named Flywheel that BI first reported on in 2021. It has set the end of 2024 as the deadline for detachment, a person familiar with the project told BI.
Persons: Verily, Steven Cooper, Cooper, Stephen Gillett, Andy Conrad, Amy Abernethy, Stat, Myoung Cha Organizations: Business, Apple Health
Alphabet's health science unit cuts over 200 jobs
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Jan 11 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) health science unit, Verily Life Sciences, said on Wednesday it had laid off over 200 employees, or about 15% of its workforce, marking the first time in at least six years when Alphabet or its affiliate has announced job cuts. The move follows similar retrenchment exercises in corporate America, concentrated among technology firms and banks, as companies look to curtail spending in a tough economy. Verily, which was born out of the Google X research program in 2015, raised $1 billion from Alphabet in September last year. Access, an Alphabet unit that houses Google Fiber, laid off some employees in 2016. Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju SamuelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Andy Conrad, seen in 2014, will step down at CEO of Verily Life Sciences and become its executive chairman. Verily Life Sciences, a healthcare unit of Alphabet said founder and Chief Executive Officer Andy Conrad would be replaced in the top role, as the company attempts to find commercial uses for its wide-ranging project portfolio. Stephen Gillett, the current president of Verily, will succeed Mr. Conrad as CEO in January next year, with Mr. Conrad becoming executive chairman. Alphabet led a $1 billion round of new funding in the company with other investors, Verily said Friday in a statement announcing the leadership changes.
"Verily is increasingly becoming a more commercial-stage company," Conrad told employees. "I've come to realize that I have drifted away from my true passion — science," Conrad said in the memo. "So at the New Year I want to move away from running the company day to day to concentrate on projects for which I have a deep interest and can contribute in a meaningful way." Insider previously reported that Conrad had taken a step back from day-to-day responsibilities as Gillett had increasingly absorbed more leadership responsibilities. Conrad said the company would search for a new CFO "with a deep healthcare background for the next phase of our growth."
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