Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of the Initiative Chan Zuckerberg, shares information about the scientific projects of the initiative to cure diseases.
James Martin/CNETSAN FRANCISCO — Scientists and doctors who work in related fields to find cures for diseases received a major boost on Wednesday by the Initiative Chan Zuckerberg.
Priscilla Chan, a doctor and educator, wife of the ceo of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the initiative will contribute US$ 3,000 billion over the next decade in order to investigate the cures to diseases that sadden mainly children. The goal is to eradicate these diseases to the end of the century.
“This does not mean that people do not get sick,” said Chan. “But it does mean that our children and their children will get ill much less”.
As part of this initiative, we will use about US$ 600 million to create a biology lab on the campus of the University of California in San Francisco with the help of Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. This center will be called BioHub.
Zuckerberg explained how they face the challenge of eradicating incurable diseases, such as polio, cancer and aids.
The process, said the executive, includes gathering scientists and engineers so that they can better collaborate; develop tools and technology, and encourage more contributions to the scientific research. In addition, in the BioHub scientists will work on the creation of an atlas of all the cells in the human body and also in the detection, response, treatment, and prevention of incurable diseases.
“vaccines are the way we can prevent the greatest number of deaths, and this group in the BioHub will help us to understand the immune system and how to intervene to prevent the spread of diseases,” said Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to CNET in Spanish. Gates spoke briefly at the end of the event about the efforts of his foundation and in collaboration with Chan Zuckerberg. “Vaccines can do to reach out to the people, as our efforts to vaccinate children, and we find that in South america the vaccines that we develop will reach to the people.”
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, praised the efforts and the importance of the Initiative Chan Zuckerberg.
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The initiative Chan Zuckerberg, established in December of 2015 with an investment of US$ 45,000 million of its shares in Facebook, has a goal broad category that includes foster human potential and to promote equality, that its founders are seeking to achieve with investments in long-term projects to cure diseases, connect people and improve communities. These projects would be provided with monetary investment over a period of 25, 50 and even 100 years, according to the initiative.
The initiative has spent a large part of their first year collaborating with schools and organizations in Silicon Valley, India and Nigeria to advance some educational projects. At the local level, are already helping 100 families, while about 20,000 students in 100 schools around the country are already benefiting from the projects of the initiative.
“My heart is full of hope,” said Chan.
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