Google Life Sciences Teams With American Heart Association; Statement Released!
Google Life Sciences have collaborated with American Heart Association for the sole purpose of developing ways to cure, prevent and to know the causes of a heart disease.
During a heart association conference in Orlando in Nov.8, both organizations agreed to commit $25 million budget each for a five-year team up for the heart disease research, according to Tech Times.
The $50 million total contribution will be the research's fund for different research teams from medicine, technology and engineering expertise. All members coming from both parties planned to choose the leader of the research in early 2016.
Molecular Biologist and Google Life Sciences Chief Executive, Andrew Conrad said that the company's ability in building data analyzing machines and sensors are the key in making efforts to prevent heart diseases. "This is the No. 1 killer in the world, and we should shake it up a bit," Conrad said in a statement according to The Wall Street Journal.
American Heart Association's Chief Executive, Nancy Brown also said that, "With its devastating human impact on countless generations of families, cardiovascular disease, and in particular coronary heart disease remains the greatest and deadliest global health challenge we face today," reported in Tech Times.
Seven million deaths each year is caused by coronary heart disease worldwide however, experts are still making efforts in order to provide a solution and preventive ways for the illness, according to Huffington Post.
The $25 million contribution from AHA is recorded to be their biggest investment for a research. The collaboration with Google Life Sciences guarantees the use of the company's latest technological tools that will help find cure for the deadly disease.
Conrad said that the project's success has no assurance but he said, "The only thing we can promise is that we'll try harder," he said according to Tech Times.
