Google Life Sciences has partnered with American Heart Association in a bid to discover more ways to battle heart disease.
This partnership was unveiled last Sunday, Nov. 8, during a heart association conference in Orlando.
Each organization promises to chip in a whopping $25 million each over the next five years to study heart disease.
"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," says Nancy Brown, chief executive at AHA.
The AHA's decision to team up with Google Life Sciences is anticipated to bring forth a major change in efforts to trim down the impact of the deadly coronary heart disease to the lives of people across the globe. The $25 million donation of AHA is deemed as the biggest single research investment in the history of the organizations. For Google, this latest venture will join its slew of breakthrough projects, including contact lenses which can monitor blood sugar, health-tracking wristbands and autonomous cars.
Alongside the cash Google promises to contribute to this project, it also guarantees to offer important tools in monitoring human health, such as sensors.
Andy Conrad, the chief executive of Google Life Sciences, says the company aspiresi to find out a cure for this fatal disease.
He admitted, though, there is no assurance they will be successful in this new project.
"[T]he only thing we can promise is that we'll try harder," says Conrad.
In the meantime, Dr. Robert Harrington, currently a member of AHA's board and the present chairman of the Stanford University, says that the new venture will entail a unique way of carrying out a research. He says they will try to do something "disruptive" in this particular project.
AHA says cardiovascular diseases are currently on top of the list as a leading cause of death in the whole world. The association notes 17 million individuals globally die every year due to heart diseases. In particular, seven million people die every single year because of coronary heart disease. To date, health experts are still baffled by the root causes of heart ailments.
