Grail hires ex-Google exec Huber as CEO

Cancer diagnostics company Grail Bio (Redwood City, Calif.) named Jeff Huber CEO and said GV invested in its series A round. Huber previously focused on data-driven life sciences projects as an SVP at the Google[X] experimental lab of Google Inc., now part of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). GV is that company's venture capital arm.

Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) formed Grail in January and holds a majority stake in the newco. Earlier this week, Huber resigned from his board seat at Illumina, which he had held since 2014. Grail intends to enable early cancer screening by using Illumina's next-generation ultra-deep sequencing technology to measure circulating tumor DNA (see BioCentury, Jan. 18). ...