Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chanhave announcedthat they are to invest $ 3 billion over the next 10 to fund a rather challenging goal to “ heal , prevent , or manage all diseases by the end of the 100 . ” At the launch of the new initiative , Zuckerberg aver that 50 time more money was being spent on cover people who were already sick , rather than curing the disease that have it , and this basically needs to change .
Along with Chan , the pair will distribute the money through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative they founded in 2015 , and will be used for three main principles , which he lay out at the event in San Francisco . First , they aim to impart both scientist and engineers together , then to help make tools and tech that accelerate enquiry , and third to create a global movement to endue more money in science , hopefully bringing it all full circle .
Part of this plan is the construction of a $ 600 million “ Biohub ” at the University of California San Francisco , with the objective to bring together these scientists and engineer from Berkeley , Stanford , and UCSF in a elbow room that has not yet occurred .
“ Throughout the history of science , most of the major scientific breakthroughs have been antecede by some fresh tool and technology that allows you to see in new ways,”saidZuckerberg . “ The telescope helped us understand uranology and the population , the microscope helped us empathize cells and bacteria to help us develop treatments for infective disease , while desoxyribonucleic acid sequence and redaction help us fight cancer and genetical disorders . ”
It is this mixing of both the scientific and the technological world that has seemingly enchant the eye of not only Zuckerberg and Chan , but also Microsoft . Their toast follows hot on the heel of another technical school monster also pushing further into the medical realm , asMicrosoft announced originally this weekthat they plan to grow their technology towards malignant neoplastic disease in rescript to “ solve ” the disease using artificial intelligence tools . Part of this design is to uprise “ individualized treatment base on the tumid database of likely cures , ” while another is to use AI to assess change seen in affected role ' tumour .
But Zuckerberg ’s destination is far more wide - reach than Microsoft ’s . The plan to “ heal , prevent , or supervise all disease by the end of the century ” is one that he fully expects will survive both himself and Chan . How achievable the finish is is problematical , but with the couple having already pledged that they will give away 99 percent of their luck , there is no doubt that they could make massive inroads .
