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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to striking down disease

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to striking down disease

CNETPower couple Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have pledged to invest at least $3 billion in the fight against disease.At a conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Dr. Chan said that the investment into disease research and cure development will come from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the limited liability company which holds 99 percent of the husband and wife teams' Facebook shares, pledged last year to charitable causes.At the time, Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to his daughter Max that "medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years," and both he and his wife wanted to "do their part" in combating heath issues, "advancing human potential" and "promoting equality".As reported by the New York Times, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will invest billions over the next decade in disease prevention, cures and management.


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to end disease by end of century

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to end disease by end of century

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research.That includes creating research tools - from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques - they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.The goal is to "cure, prevent or manage all disease" in the next 80 or so years, a timeframe the 30-something couple are unlikely to live to see.They acknowledge that this might sound crazy, but point to how far medicine and science have come in the last century - with vaccines, statins for heart disease, chemotherapy, and so on - following millennia with little progress.At current rates of progress, Zuckerberg reckons, it will be possible to solve most of these problems "by the end of this century."Zuckerberg and Chan have spent the past two years speaking to scientists and other experts to plan the endeavor.


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Zuckerberg, Chan to spend $3 billion on curing disease

Zuckerberg, Chan to spend $3 billion on curing disease

Zuckerberg, Chan to spend $3 billion on curing diseaseFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, on Wednesday announced an ambitious plan to spend $3 billion over the next 10 years to help cure or better treat disease."Can we cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century?That doesn't mean that no one will get sick, but it should mean that people will get sick less," Zuckerberg told a crowd gathered at the William J. Rutter Center on UCSF's Mission Bay campus.The new initiative, Chan Zuckerberg Science, is designed to help bring scientists and engineers together, build new tools and technologies and grow a movement to help fund more science, he said.


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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to 'cure, prevent, and manage' all disease

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to 'cure, prevent, and manage' all disease

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