Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Pledge $3 Billion to Cure All Diseases
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend USD 3 billion over the next ten years on their ambitious goal aimed at helping to eradicate all diseases by the end of this century.
The goal is to "work together to cure, prevent or manage all diseases within our childrens lifetime," Chan, who is a pediatrician, said during an event in San Francisco for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the couples philanthropic group.
Speaking through tears, Chan recalled telling parents their child had an incurable disease or could not be revived, experiences she said made her even more determined to work with scientists and engineers to build new tools that can save lives by the end of the century.
The investments will include creating research tools from software to hardware to...
