Mark Zuckerberg, the Tsar of social media now has another ambition on his mind, i.e. “curing all disease in our children’s lifetime.”
The face of Facebook along with his wife Priscilla Chan announced, a $3 billion project called Chan Zuckerberg Science with a mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases.
“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,” said Priscilla Chan, while speaking at the project’s launch event in San Francisco.
Zuckerberg however, said, “That doesn’t mean that no one will ever get sick,” but the goal of the program is to make all diseases treatable, manageable by the end of this century, reported VentureBeat.
“Our society spends 50x more treating people who are sick than on finding cures. We can do better than that,” he said.
One of the centerpieces of the project would be the creation of a “Biohub” at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), which will act as a platform bringing in scientists from Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and UCSF, reported Washington Post.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Chan, are ranked among world's top 10 wealthiest couples, having a net worth of $55.2 billion.
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