Vikram Bajaj's Biography

I’ve joined the leadership team of GRAIL as Head of Precision Medicine and Translational Science. GRAIL is a startup working on techniques for the early detection of cancer. You can read about my move here: “Seeing Deeply into cancer: early disease interception for improved outcomes.” I remain affiliated with Verily as Chair of its Science Board.

I am a co-founder and former Chief Scientific Officer of Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences, Google, Inc.). I am also an Associate Professor of Radiology (consulting) at Stanford University, an affiliate scientist of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a former affiliate of the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (Chinese Academy of Sciences). The content on this site is purely personal, however.

Here is a summary of my research interests.

Below are some details about my past.

Ottawa, Canada & University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

I was born in Ottawa, Canada, and left to attend the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

In graduate school, I studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, MA. I completed my doctoral work in the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab (Harvard/MIT Center for Magnetic Resonance).

University of California, Berkeley &
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA)

I worked at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a principal investigator. Now, I remain an affiliate scientist and an member of the College Advisory Board.