our mission
Helping people to live their healthiest lives.
We started Nucleus more than five years ago as a way to bring comprehensive genetic health insights to just about everybody. We've all got DNA, and DNA is the foundation of our health. We're building towards a world where no lives are taken by preventable diseases.
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Backed by the best
Our investors bring expertise across technology, academia, healthcare, and media.
776 Fund
Founders Fund
Thiel Foundation
Quiet Capital
Adrian Aoun
CEO, Forward Health
Brent Saunders
Chairman and CEO, Bausch + Lomb
Matteo Franceschetti
Co-Founder and CEO, Eight Sleep
Patrick Hsu
Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Austen Allred
Co-Founder and CEO, BloomTech
Alexandra Botez
Chess player and influencer
Cory Levy
Founder, Z Fellows
Packy McCormick
Founder, Not Boring
Built by world-class collaborators
Our team brings decades of combined experience across genomics, computational biology, and database security. We're driven by the shared belief that we all deserve to be as informed as possible about our own health.
Lasse Folkersen, Ph.D.
Formerly lead scientist at the Danish National Genome Center and author of 100+ peer-reviewed publications
Pioneer of the largest open-source genetic analysis site
Barry Starr, Ph.D.
Formerly director of outreach at the Stanford Department of Genetics and director of science communications at Ancestry Health
Robert Plomin, Ph.D.
Professor at King’s College London and one of the most well-cited behavioral geneticists in history
Margit Burmeister, Ph.D.
Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School
Jerry Lanchbury, Ph.D.
Former Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad Genetics
"We intentionally designed Nucleus to deliver the full gamut of clinical genetic tests, in a consumer product that's accessible to nearly everyone."
Lasse Folkersen
Chief Scientific Officer, Nucleus
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