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Mark Zuckerberg spent $ 3 billion to find a cure every disease in the world
and his wife Priscilla Chan Mark Zuckerberg will spend $ 3 billion to heal and solve all kinds of human diseases.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a charity fund of two wives Facebook boss husband. The first step, will spend $ 600 million fund to invest in projects Biohub, an independent research center based at the University of California, San Francisco (USA) to study new tools to assess and treat patients.
In a talk at the University, Chan said the couple spent the past two years to discuss with the scientists, from Nobel laureates to students who have just graduated and believe they can do everything for our children's future. "We set a goal: whether it can cure all diseases of children throughout the years? That does not mean that nobody is ill children and their descendants can be much less sick. "
Zuckerberg also present beside his wife. He outlined plans to eliminate almost all types of the disease over the next century. He noted heart disease, infectious diseases, cancer, neurological diseases are the leading cause of death. No breakthrough can be wiped them but if investment in basic scientific research, building new tools will accelerate the process against them.
The boss Facebook, scientific licensing process now, given tan a few thousand dollars for individuals, ineffective. Biohub will take scientists to the software engineers and to provide funds for long-term initiatives to promote scientific discovery. He also affirmed that "we have to be patient" until the first engine arrived, and the first disease to be cured.
Zuckerberg called for investment in artificial intelligence to better understand the brain, machine learning to cancer genome analysis, chip to diagnose infectious diseases and monitor blood to detect diseases at an early stage.
The scientific effort will be led by Dr. Cori Bargamnn charge, while Biohub by Joe DeRissi, Education Professor of Medicine at the University of California and Stephen Quake, biotechnology engineer, lead. One of the first projects is the development Biohub "cell atlas", a comprehensive record of all positions and molecules of all cells in the human body. Tools and other tools will be provided free of charge to the entire scientific community.
Appearing unexpectedly at the end of the presentation, the billionaire Bill Gates. He said that we need much more scientific. Only science, we have vaccines for HIV or malaria vaccine.
Chan Zuckerberg 12/2015 Initiative was established with the objective initially as "promoting human potential in the field of equality health, education, scientific research, energy ". The first investment of US $ 24 million fund to Andela to train programmers in Africa.
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