西亚试剂：Cardiologist Euan Ashley of Stanford Universit

Cardiologist Euan Ashley of Stanford University, which sits in the thick of Silicon Valley, says that academic data scientists are constantly tempted by the companies that await them just off campus. “They’re being continuously recruited away,” he says. “We’re in competition with Google and other tech companies, and generally they can pay a lot more than Stanford can.”

But money is not the only lure. Silicon Valley offers strong technology resources that are hard to access in academia, Topol says, as well as the opportunity to pursue goals that are difficult to reach for in academia, where scientists are not typically rewarded for pursuing real-world applications. “The resources are exponentially greater than what you can get through academic circles. And the metrics are different: instead of publications, it’s just, ‘Get stuff done’,” he says.

“The resources are exponentially greater than what you can get through academic circles.”
Getting stuff done was foremost in the mind of electrical engineer Brian Otis when he left his tenured position at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2012 to work for Google. He went there to work on a ‘smart’ contact lens for people with diabetes that measures the level of glucose in tears. When the project began, it faced two big questions: first, could the electronics needed to make a functional wireless glucose sensor be embedded in a wearable contact lens? And second, would it provide the relevant measurements of glucose levels? The motivation and means to answer those unknowns was a powerful incentive, Otis says. He recalls thinking: “If I come into Google life with these questions, I have the entire runway and resources to answer these two questions.”

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