Walaliyadde: Illumina expanded into the applications layer via Verinata, Grail, and Helix
Malinka Walaliyadde · a16z Podcast | On the Genomics of Disease, From Science to Business · Jan 2, 2019 · at 21:42
Malinka Walaliyadde explains Illumina's strategy of moving beyond hardware into clinical applications such as non-invasive prenatal testing and cancer diagnostics.
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“Lumina has started realizing that as well and is itself building applications. They bought a company called Verinata, which is a NIPT company... You know, they have a cancer company called Grail... There's a company called Helix. So they have started participating in the applications layer”
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