Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 : bbc

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Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

Image copyright AP Image caption Priscilla Chan was trained as a paediatricianFacebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade.At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their ultimate goal was to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century".The funds will be distributed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which they created in December 2015.Tech leaders are increasingly turning their attention to health.


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Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease

Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease

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.


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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg aim to 'cure, prevent and manage' all disease

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg aim to 'cure, prevent and manage' all disease

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have laid out plans to invest $3bn over the next 10 years with the not insignificant goal of tackling all diseases."Can we cure, prevent or manage all disease by the end of this century?" asked Zuckerberg, speaking in front of a packed lecture theater at the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) William J Rutter Center.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will focus on some of the world's biggest killers, including heart disease, cancer, infectious diseases and neurological diseases.One of its biggest investments is to be a $600m "Biohub" at UCSF, which will bring together scientists and engineers from Stanford, Berkeley and UCSF – who haven't collaborated in this way before – to develop tools to treat diseases.