Taking their next bold step in tech philanthropy, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan have laid out an ambitious plan to invest $3 billion over the next decade to accelerate medical science and eradicate diseases “within our children’s lifetime.”
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic effort dedicated to “advancing human potential and promoting equality,” is taking on science – after investing in education startups – in a long-term effort to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century. UC Berkeley will play a key role in the endeavor.
“This is hard stuff, but it’s important,” Zuckerberg told a rapt audience of scientists, philanthropists and politicians in an auditorium on Sept. 21 at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus. “This is about the future we all want to build for our children … to leave the world a better place than we found it.”
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