{"id":34398,"date":"2017-02-11T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-is-giving-3-billion-to-cure-manage-or-prevent-all-disease"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:40:41","slug":"the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-is-giving-3-billion-to-cure-manage-or-prevent-all-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-is-giving-3-billion-to-cure-manage-or-prevent-all-disease","title":{"rendered":"The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Is Giving $3 Billion to Cure, Manage, or Prevent \u201cAll Disease\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-is-giving-3-billion-to-cure-manage-or-prevent-all-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched in September 2016 and run by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, set out with the ambitious goal \u201cto cure, prevent or manage all disease during our children\u2019s lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the US$3 billion initiative, the organisation created an independent nonprofit Biohub, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-biohub-47-scientists-50-million-fund-research-2017-2\">which on Wednesday said it committed<\/a> US$50 million to 47 scientists, technologists, and engineers working at UCSF, Stanford, and UC-Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/czbiohub.org\/investigators\/\">47 investigators<\/a> are working on a wide range of projects, but there was one central thesis the Biohub tried to keep in mind when picking from the 700 applicants.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/zuckerberg-couple-have-launched-an-initiative-to-cure-prevent-or-manage-all-disease\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/zuckerberg-couple-have-launched-...ll-disease<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched in September 2016 and run by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, set out with the ambitious goal \u201cto cure, prevent or manage all disease during our children\u2019s lifetime\u201d. As part of the US$3 billion initiative, the organisation created an independent nonprofit Biohub, which on Wednesday [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58770,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions\/58770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}