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Vikram Bajaj Biography

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Nationality: American

Marital Status: Married

Bio/Wiki
Other Name	Vikram “Vik” Bajaj
Nickname	Vik
Profession(s)	• Scientist • Physicist • Chemist
Known for	Being the Co-Chief Executive of Project Prometheus
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt & Pepper
Career
Award(s)	• R&D 100 Award - "Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging" by R&D Magazine (2011) • R&D 100 Award - "Optically-Detected Oil Well Logging by MRI" by R&D Magazine (2013) • Anatole Abragam Prize by International Society for Magnetic Resonance (2013) • Outstanding Digital Health Innovation Award (on behalf of Google Life Sciences) by BayBio (2014)
Personal Life
Nationality	American
College/University	• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts • University of California, Berkeley
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in Biochemistry from University of Pennsylvania • Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley
Religion	Hinduism
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Social Media	LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married

Some Lesser Known Facts About Vikram Bajaj

From 2011 to August 2021, Vikram Bajaj served as a Principal Investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

He worked as a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at UC Berkeley, California, from 2011 to 2015.

Vikram Bajaj was an Advisory Board Member at the College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, from February 2015 to August 2021.

From March 2013 to October 2016, he worked as the Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder of Google Life Sciences. During the same time, he served as Director of Google X in Mountain View, California.

Reportedly, Vikram Bajaj worked with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, during his time at Google X, which is also known as ‘The Moonshot Factory,’ a research lab focused on radical and ambitious technology projects.

In March 2013, he co-founded Google Life Sciences (now Verily) and worked as its Chief Scientific Officer till October 2016. The company is based in South San Francisco, California.

Vikram Bajaj has been an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States, since September 2014.

From January 2016 to October 2017, he served as the Chief Scientific Officer at GRAIL, Inc. in Menlo Park, California.

In September 2016, Vikram Bajaj began working as Chair of the Science Board at Verily, based in South San Francisco, California. He served in the position till September 2017.
Vikram Bajaj

In September 2017, he was appointed as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at GRAIL, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served in the position till August 2021.

In October 2017, Vikram Bajaj was appointed as the Managing Director at Foresite Capital Management in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on investments in technology, data science, precision health, and biotech.

In October 2018, he co-founded Foresite Labs and started working as its full-time CEO, leading the company in developing AI-driven innovations in healthcare and life sciences based in South San Francisco, California.

In February 2021, Vikram Bajaj started working as a Non-Executive Director at Genomics England, based in the London Area, United Kingdom.

He is the Co-founder, Director, and Interim President of Xaira Therapeutics, based in South San Francisco, California, and has been working in this role full-time since January 2023.

On 18 November 2025, Vikram Bajaj made headlines when he was appointed as the co-chief executive of Project Prometheus, a new and secretive artificial intelligence startup headquartered in San Francisco, London, and Zurich.

The project focused on building advanced AI for real-world industries like manufacturing, logistics, and engineering, with backing from Jeff Bezos and a $6.2 billion investment fund.