Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to fund medical research

Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan pledge $3 billion to fund medical research
Zuckerberg and Chan have pledged $3 billion to fund medical research over the next decade.

He outlined three principles that will guide the couple’s investments: To bring scientists and engineers together, to build tools and technology that advance research and to grow the movement to fund more science around the world Chan added that they had already committed $600 million to creating a new research centre called the Biohub, which will bring together engineers, computer scientists, biologists, chemists and other innovators. The Biohub will initially work on two projects. The first is the Cell Atlas, a ‘map’ that describes the different types of cells that control the body’s major organs. The second is the Infectious Disease Initiative, which will try to develop new tests and vaccines to tackle HIV, Ebola, Zikaand other new diseases. Zuckerberg predicted that by 2100 the average life expectancy would be beyond 100 years. But he cautioned that it would take years before the couple’s fund led to the creation of new medical treatments and further time before they could be applied to patients. (Read: Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook’s partnership with a Brazillian NGO to fight the Zika virus)

Source: IANS

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