Google, Heart Association team up on new research venture

Google Life Sciences will team up with the AHA in a $50 million project meant to extend research for fighting heart disease, the Associated Press reported via NBC News.

This research which will be done by a single team and is specifically meant to deal with bringing new approaches to research into the prevention, causes, and treatment of heart diseases.

The agreement, announced Sunday at the AHA’s annual scientific meeting, represents Google’s latest foray into life sciences research. The company’s aim to unite with American Heart Association is to bring modifications in the field of heart research by backing and directing novel studies. “By working together, AHA and Google Life Sciences will be able to serve as the catalyst for change and transformation in reducing the impact of coronary heart disease on people’s lives and alleviating this global burden”, said AHA chief executive Nancy Brown. “We’re already imaging the possibilities when a team like that has access to the full resources of both Google Life Sciences and the AHA, and we can’t wait to see what they discover”, Conrad said.

If you know anything about Google, you probably know that when they recently became Alphabet, their moonshot projects and a few other departments got their own sub-companies.

“There’s no guarantee of success…the only things we can promise is that we’ll try harder”, Conrad said.

Heart disease is responsible, statistically, for one in three deaths worldwide and current research methods, normally backed by smaller piecemeal capital investments, have been doing quite well, but have so far failed to venture far enough off the reservation to turn up many new developments, instead offshooting or deepening old research. Dr. Robert Harrington, chairman of the Stanford University School of Medicine and member of the AHA board, said succinctly, “We are trying to do something disruptive here”. The association notes 17 million individuals globally die every year due to heart diseases. To date, health experts are still baffled by the root causes of heart ailments.