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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg pledge $3 billion to fight diseases

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg pledge $3 billion to fight diseases

After investing millions of dollars in education and opening their own private K-12 school this year, pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, announced Wednesday that they will invest $3 billion over the next decade to fight diseases.The funds will come from the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, a limited-liability company that the couple established last year after the birth of their daughter, with a goal to "advance human potential and promote equality in areas such as health, education, scientific research and energy."Neuroscientist and geneticist Cori Bargmann was named the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's president of science and will be in charge of bringing together scientists and engineers to develop medical breakthroughs.Chan also announced that the initiative will spend an additional $600 million to establish a "bio hub" in San Francisco to support researchers from Stanford University, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco as they develop new tools to understand and treat diseases.


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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to 'cure all diseases'

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to 'cure all diseases'

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to "unlock human potential and promote equality," today announced Chan Zuckerberg Science, a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage "all diseases in our children's lifetime."Speaking at the project's launch event in San Francisco, Priscilla Chan said:Mark and I believe that this is possible within our children's lifetime.We are partnering with scientists, doctors, and engineers to help us achieve this goal … We'll be investing more than $3 billion to achieve our collective vision."That doesn't mean that no one will ever get sick," Mark Zuckerberg later said.But the program hopes to eventually make all diseases treatable — or at least easily manageable — by the end of the 21st century.


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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to invest $3 billion to cure disease

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to invest $3 billion to cure disease

That's obviously a pretty lofty goal, but Chan and Zuckerberg believe it's possible.They plan to do this with a three-pronged approach: 1) Bring scientists and engineers together, 2) Build tools and technology to empower the scientific community 3) Grow the movement to fund science.The first step is already underway, as the initiative has already started to partner with scientists, doctors, engineers and universities to achieve this goal.Leading this project is Dr. Cori Bargmann, who will become the initiative's President of Science.


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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3 billion investment to cure disease

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces $3 billion investment to cure disease

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program informally called Chan Zuckerberg Science to invest $3 billion over the next decade to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease.The money comes from the $45 billion organization Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started last year to advance human potential and equality.The project will bring together teams of scientists and engineers "to build new tools for the scientific community" Priscilla Chan said on stage at an event in San Francisco.You can watch the announcement here:Part of the $3 billion will go to a $600 million investment in Biohub, a new physical location that will unite researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF with elite engineers to find new ways to treat disease.