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Zuckerberg and Chan $3 Billion Initiative to End All Disease

Zuckerberg and Chan $3 Billion Initiative to End All Disease

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced a new initiative on Wednesday to cure all diseases.(What'd you accomplish today?)Chan and Zuckerberg will invest $3 billion over the next decade to help scientists around the world cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century.Chan told the audience in San Francisco that their goal was "to cure, prevent, or manage all disease within our children's lifetime.


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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to Invest $3 Billion to Fight Diseases

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to Invest $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 Facebook-founding husband, 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 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 addition $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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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $3 Billion Investment To Cure All Disease

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces $3 Billion Investment To Cure All Disease

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced one of its biggest investments to date: It is ponying up more than $3 billion to kickstart "Chan Zuckerberg Science," an initiative that plans to bring together multidisciplinary teams of scientists in an effort to prevent, cure or manage "all diseases in our children's lifetime."If you remember, at the end of last year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, promised to give away almost all of their $45 billion fortune during their lifetime.This project is a part of that promise.Chan and Zuckerberg made the announcement Wednesday during an event in San Francisco that was streamed live on Facebook.