Vik Bajaj

Vikram Bajaj is a Canadian-American scientist and business executive. He is the co-CEO of Project Prometheus and CEO of Foresite Labs, early in his career he co-founded Google Life Sciences, later named Verily, where he was chief science officer (CSO) until 2016. He afterwards was CSO of Grail before becoming a managing director at Foresite Capital. Bajaj is also an adjunct professor at Stanford University.

Early life and education Bajaj was born in Canada of Indian heritage. He graduated with a combined bachelor of arts and master of science degree in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He then earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011, Bajaj became a research scientist and principal investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, He was also a principal investigator at the University of California, Berkeley. In September 2014, he became an adjunct associate professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. From February 2015 to August 2021, he was an advisory board member for the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry.

Google Life Sciences and Grail In March 2013, he co-founded Google Life Sciences, and was involved in projects such as the drone delivery service Wing, the self-driving car that became Waymo, until October 2016. Bajaj was on Grail's scientific advisory board until 2021,

Foresite and Xaira In October 2017, he became a managing director of Foresite Capital, an investment firm. and on Berkeley's college of chemistry advisory board. in January 2023.