Becker's Healthcare September 17, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg is selling $13 billion in Facebook stock to fund a new goal: curing, preventing or managing all diseases “in our children’s lifetime,” CNBC reports.
Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, MD, run the philanthropic investment group the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Their research center, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, funds ambitious young scientists with big goals, such as Markita Landry, PhD, a chemical engineer who runs a lab at UC Berkeley and seeks to develop technology that could measure the chemistry of the brain.
“As scientists, we tend to think about moving in increments of weeks or months, but Mark prompted me to talk about the potential impact in years or even decades,” Dr. Landry explained.
Last year, Mr....
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