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 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla Chan announce an ambitious $3 billion effort to eradicate disease. (Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) 
  
 SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, are launching an ambitious effort to spend $3 billion over the next decade to cure disease. 
  
 The goal is to "work together to cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime," Dr. Chan said during an event in San Francisco for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the couple's philanthropic group. 
  
 Dr. Chan spoke through tears as she 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. 
  
 Zuckerberg, who took the stage after his wife's remarks, said he and Chan want to "make a better future for our children." 
  
 As part of the investment, the couple is funding a $600 million research center in San Francisco called the Biohub that is a partnership with UC San Francisco, Stanford University and UC Berkeley. Neurobiologist Cori Bargmann is signing on as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's president of science. 
  
 Last December, the couple celebrated the birth of a baby girl with the stunning announcement they plan to give away most of their fortune through a new initiative to "advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation." The Facebook founder and his physician wife pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook shares in their lifetime. So far the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has made investments in an African coding start-up called Andela and Indian education start-up Byju. 
  
 Zuckerberg and Chan have drawn parallels to Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and wife Melinda, known for their philanthropic efforts. 
  
 Gates on Wednesday praised the couple, who have already made substantial investments in education, for "taking on another bold challenge." 
  
 "This idea of curing and preventing all diseases by the end of the century, that's very bold, very ambitious," Gates said during remarks at the event. "I can't think of a better partnership to take it on," Gates said, noting Zuckerberg's risk-taking entrepreneurial chops and Chan's medical bonafides. 
  
 "They both love science and they are both very committed to where it can take us," Gates said. 
  
 Biohub, the new independent research facility in San Francisco, will develop new tools to measure and treat disease. It will bring together leading scientists from UC San Francisco, Stanford University and UC Berkeley, Chan said. 
  
 Joseph DeRisi, a UCSF biochemist, and Stephen Quake, a Stanford professor of bioengineering, will run the facility. It is embarking on its first two research projects: The Cell Atlas, a map of the different types of cells that control the body's major organs, and the Infectious Disease Initiative, which will explore new approaches and develop new tools for creating drugs, diagnostic tests and vaccines that could aid the fight against such threats as HIV, Ebola and Zika. 
  
 Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are giving $3 billion over the next decade to prevent, cure and manage disease. They made the announcement in San Francisco on Wednesday. (Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) 
  
 "Future scientific advances likely will be at the interface of different disciplines — a 'convergence' that requires breaking down barriers between fields. This is exactly what Biohub is planning," David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize winner and professor at the California Institute of Technology wrote in an editorial published Wednesday. 
  
 Chan said she and Zuckerberg spent two years talking to scientists. "We believe that the future we all want for our children is possible. We set a goal: Can we cure all diseases in our children's lifetime? That does't mean that no one will ever get sick. But it does mean that our children and their children should get sick a lot less. And that we should be able to detect and treat or at least manage it as an ongoing condition," she said. 
  
 In his remarks, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for eradicating disease: bring engineers and scientists together to more swiftly build new tools to advance efforts to tackle leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, infectious diseases and neurological diseases. 
  
 He also called for investments in artificial intelligence to probe the brain, machine learning to explore cancer genomes, computer chips to detect infectious disease and bloodstream monitors to catch diseases. 
  
 "Today, just four kinds of diseases cause the majority of deaths. We can make progress on all of them with the right technology," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. "Throughout history, most scientific breakthroughs have been preceded by the invention of new tools to help us see problems in new ways -- like the telescope, the microscope and DNA sequencing. It's not hard to imagine the modern tools required to accelerate breakthroughs in today's four major disease area. So we're going to focus on bringing scientists and engineers together to build these new tools and technologies." 
  
 This is a long-term effort, Zuckerberg cautioned. "We plan to invest billions of dollars over decades," he said. "But it will take years for these tools to be developed and longer to put them into full use. This is hard and we need to be patient, but it's important." 
  
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– Let it never be said that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan don't dream big. On Wednesday, the Facebook founder and his wife announced a $3 billion plan to wipe out disease by the end of the century, Variety reports. "This is about the future we want for our daughter and children everywhere," Zuckerberg says in a Facebook post. "If there's a chance that we can help cure all diseases in our children's lifetime, then we will do our part." Chan, who teared up while talking about telling parents their child has an incurable disease, says the hope is to "cure, prevent, or manage all disease within our children's lifetime," according to USA Today. It may sound far-fetched, but Zuckerberg says he's "optimistic" it can be done, pointing out that modern medicine has made impressive progress despite only existing for 100 years or so. "Today, just four kinds of diseases cause the majority of deaths," he says on Facebook. "We can make progress on all of them with the right technology." To that end, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hired neuroscience and genetics expert Dr. Cori Bargmann to spearhead the effort. And $600 million of its $3 billion investment will go toward the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub research facility. The power couple started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative after the birth of their daughter last year, pledging to give away 99% of their fortune.
Se mer av Mark Zuckerberg på Facebook .. .. NÄRMA Mark Zuckerberg och hans fru Priscilla Chan gör en $ 3 miljarder dollar donation till ett biomedicinskt forskningscentrum som kommer att hjälpa till att bekämpa och bota sjukdomar. Time Facebook VD Mark Zuckerberg och hans barnläkare fru Priscilla Chan tillkännager en ambitiös $ 3 miljarder ansträngning för att utrota sjukdomar. (Foto: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook VD Mark Zuckerberg och hans barnläkare fru, Priscilla Chan, lanserar en ambitiös satsning på att spendera $3 miljarder under det kommande årtiondet för att bota sjukdomar. Målet är att "arbeta tillsammans för att bota, förebygga eller hantera alla sjukdomar inom våra barns livstid", sade dr Chan under en händelse i San Francisco för Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, parets filantropiska grupp. Doktor Chan talade genom tårar när hon erinrade sig att berätta föräldrar deras barn hade en obotlig sjukdom eller inte kunde återupplivas, erfarenheter hon sade gjorde henne ännu mer besluten att arbeta med vetenskapsmän och ingenjörer för att bygga nya verktyg som kan rädda liv i slutet av århundradet. Zuckerberg, som tog scenen efter sin frus anmärkningar, sade att han och Chan vill "göra en bättre framtid för våra barn". Som en del av investeringen finansierar paret ett forskningscentrum på 600 miljoner dollar i San Francisco kallat Biohub som är ett partnerskap med UC San Francisco, Stanford University och UC Berkeley. Neurobiologen Cori Bargmann skriver på som Chan Zuckerberg-initiativets vetenskapsordförande. I december firade paret födelsen av en liten flicka med det fantastiska tillkännagivande de planerar att ge bort större delen av sin förmögenhet genom ett nytt initiativ för att "utveckla mänsklig potential och främja jämlikhet för alla barn i nästa generation." Facebook grundaren och hans läkare fru lovade att ge bort 99% av sina Facebook-aktier under sin livstid. Hittills har Chan Zuckerberg-initiativet gjort investeringar i ett afrikanskt kodningsstartande som heter Andela och det indiska utbildningsstartandet Byju. Zuckerberg och Chan har dragit paralleller till Microsofts grundare och miljardärens filantrop Bill Gates och hustrun Melinda, kända för sina filantropiska insatser. Gates på onsdag berömde paret, som redan gjort betydande investeringar i utbildning, för att "ta sig an en annan djärv utmaning". "Denna idé om att bota och förhindra alla sjukdomar i slutet av århundradet, det är mycket djärv, mycket ambitiös," Gates sade under anmärkningar på händelsen. "Jag kan inte tänka mig ett bättre partnerskap att ta det på," Gates sade, notera Zuckerbergs risktagande entreprenör kotletter och Chans medicinska bonafides. "De båda älskar vetenskap och de är båda mycket engagerade i vart den kan föra oss", sade Gates. Biohub, den nya oberoende forskningsanläggningen i San Francisco, kommer att utveckla nya verktyg för att mäta och behandla sjukdomar. Det kommer att sammanföra ledande forskare från UC San Francisco, Stanford University och UC Berkeley, sade Chan. Joseph DeRisi, en UCSF biokemist, och Stephen Quake, en Stanford professor i bioteknik, kommer att driva anläggningen. Den inleder sina två första forskningsprojekt: Cellatlas, en karta över de olika typer av celler som styr kroppens större organ, och Infektionssjukdomsinitiativet, som kommer att utforska nya tillvägagångssätt och utveckla nya verktyg för att skapa läkemedel, diagnostiska tester och vacciner som kan hjälpa till att bekämpa sådana hot som hiv, ebola och zika. Mark Zuckerberg och Priscilla Chan ger 3 miljarder dollar under det kommande årtiondet för att förebygga, bota och hantera sjukdomar. De gjorde tillkännagivandet i San Francisco på onsdag. (Foto: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) "Framtida vetenskapliga framsteg kommer sannolikt att vara i gränssnittet mellan olika discipliner – en "konvergens" som kräver att man bryter ner barriärer mellan fält. Detta är precis vad Biohub planerar," David Baltimore, nobelpristagare och professor vid California Institute of Technology skrev i en ledarartikel publicerad onsdag. Chan sa att hon och Zuckerberg pratade med forskare i två år. "Vi tror att den framtid vi alla vill ha för våra barn är möjlig. Vi sätter upp ett mål: Kan vi bota alla sjukdomar i våra barns livstid? Det betyder inte att ingen kommer att bli sjuk. Men det betyder att våra barn och deras barn borde bli mycket mindre sjuka. Och att vi ska kunna upptäcka och behandla eller åtminstone hantera det som ett pågående tillstånd," sade hon. I sina kommentarer lade Zuckerberg fram sin vision för att utrota sjukdomar: föra samman ingenjörer och forskare för att snabbare bygga nya verktyg för att påskynda insatserna för att ta itu med de främsta dödsorsakerna: hjärtsjukdomar, cancer, infektionssjukdomar och neurologiska sjukdomar. Han efterlyste också investeringar i artificiell intelligens för att sondera hjärnan, maskininlärning för att utforska cancergenom, datorchips för att upptäcka infektionssjukdomar och blodomloppsmonitorer för att fånga sjukdomar. "I dag är det bara fyra sorters sjukdomar som orsakar de flesta dödsfallen. Vi kan göra framsteg på alla dem med rätt teknik," skrev Zuckerberg i ett Facebook-inlägg. "Under historiens gång har de flesta vetenskapliga genombrott föregåtts av uppfinningen av nya verktyg för att hjälpa oss att se problem på nya sätt -- som teleskopet, mikroskopet och DNA-sekvenseringen. Det är inte svårt att föreställa sig de moderna verktyg som krävs för att påskynda genombrotten i dagens fyra stora sjukdomsområde. Så vi kommer att fokusera på att sammanföra forskare och ingenjörer för att bygga dessa nya verktyg och tekniker. Detta är en långsiktig insats, varnade Zuckerberg. "Vi planerar att investera miljarder dollar under årtionden", sade han. "Men det kommer att ta flera år innan dessa verktyg utvecklas och längre tid att använda dem fullt ut. Det är svårt och vi måste ha tålamod, men det är viktigt." Följ USA:s ledande teknikskribent Jessica Guynn @jguynn Läs eller dela med dig av denna historia: http://usat.ly/2dk0KyX ́ ́ Vad är en sammanfattning på ett stycke av ovanstående artikel?
See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook .. CLEAR Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan make a $3 billion donation to a biomedical research center that will help fight and cure diseases. Time Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician Mrs. Priscilla Chan announce an ambitious $3 billion effort to eradicate diseases. (Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, launch an ambitious venture to spend $3 billion over the next decade to cure diseases. The goal is to "work together to cure, prevent or manage all diseases within our children's lifetime," said Dr. Chan during an incident in San Francisco for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the couple's philanthropic group. Dr. Chan spoke through tears when she recalled telling parents their children had an incurable illness 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. Zuckerberg, who took the scene after his wife's remarks, said he and Chan want to "make a better future for our children". As part of the investment, the couple finance a $600 million research center in San Francisco called Biohub which is a partnership with UC San Francisco, Stanford University and UC Berkeley. Neurobiologist Cori Bargmann signs as the Chan Zuckerberg initiative's science chairman. In December, the couple celebrated the birth of a little girl with the amazing announcement they plan to give away most of their fortune through a new initiative to "develop human potential and promote equality for all children of the next generation." Facebook founder and his doctor's wife promised to give away 99% of their Facebook shares during their lifetime. To date, the Chan Zuckerberg initiative has made investments in an African coding start called Andera and the Indian education start Byju. Zuckerberg and Chan have drawn parallels to Microsoft's founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and wife Melinda, known for their philanthropic efforts. Gates on Wednesday praised the couple, who have already made significant investments in education, to "take on another bold challenge". "This idea of curing and preventing all diseases by the end of the century, it's very bold, very ambitious," Gates said during remarks on the incident. "I can't imagine a better partnership to take it on," Gates said, noting Zuckerberg's risky entrepreneur chops and Chan's medical bonafides. "They both love science and they're both very committed to where it can take us," said Gates. Biohub, the new independent research facility in San Francisco, will develop new tools for measuring and treating diseases. It will bring together leading researchers from UC San Francisco, Stanford University and UC Berkeley, Chan said. Joseph DeRisi, a UCSF biochemist, and Stephen Quake, a Stanford professor of biotechnology, will operate the facility. It launches its first two research projects: Cellatlas, a map of the different types of cells that control the body's major organs, and the Infection Disease Initiative, which will explore new approaches and develop new tools for creating drugs, diagnostic tests and vaccines that can help combat such threats as HIV, Ebola and Zika. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan provide $3 billion over the next decade to prevent, cure and manage diseases. They made the announcement in San Francisco on Wednesday. (Photo: Jeff Chiu, Associated Press) "Future scientific progress is likely to be in the interface between different disciplines – a "convergence" requiring breaking down barriers between fields. This is exactly what Biohub is planning," David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and professor at the California Institute of Technology wrote in an editorial published Wednesday. Chan said she and Zuckerberg talked to scientists for two years. "We believe that the future we all want for our children is possible. We set a goal: Can we cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime? That doesn't mean no one's going to get sick. But that means that our children and their children should be much less ill. And that we should be able to detect and treat or at least manage it as an ongoing state," she said. In his comments, Zuckerberg set out his vision to eradicate diseases: bringing together engineers and scientists to build new tools more quickly to speed up efforts to address the main causes of death: heart disease, cancer, infectious diseases and neurological diseases. He also called for investments in artificial intelligence to probe the brain, machine learning to explore cancer genomes, computer chips to detect infectious diseases, and blood circulatory monitors to catch diseases. "Today, only four types of disease cause most deaths. We can make progress on all those with the right technology," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. "In the course of history, most scientific breakthroughs have been preceded by the invention of new tools to help us see problems in new ways -- such as the telescope, microscope and DNA sequencing. It is not difficult to imagine the modern tools needed to accelerate the breakthroughs in today's four major disease areas. So we will focus on bringing together researchers and engineers to build these new tools and techniques. This is a long-term effort, warned Zuckerberg. "We plan to invest billions of dollars over decades," he said. "But it will take years before these tools are developed and longer to use them fully. It's hard and we have to be patient, but it's important." Follow America's leading technology writer Jessica Guynn @jguynn Read or share this story: http://usat.ly/2dk0KyX What is a summary of a paragraph of the above article?
– Låt det aldrig sägas att Mark Zuckerberg och Priscilla Chan inte drömmer stort. På onsdagen tillkännagav Facebooks grundare och hans fru en plan på 3 miljarder dollar för att utrota sjukdomar i slutet av århundradet, rapporterar Variety. "Det handlar om den framtid vi vill ha för vår dotter och våra barn överallt", säger Zuckerberg i ett inlägg på Facebook. "Om det finns en chans att vi kan hjälpa till att bota alla sjukdomar i våra barns liv, då kommer vi att göra vår del." Chan, som rev sig när han pratade om att berätta för föräldrar att deras barn har en obotlig sjukdom, säger att hoppet är att "bota, förebygga eller hantera alla sjukdomar inom våra barns livstid", enligt USA Today. Det kan låta långsökt, men Zuckerberg säger att han är "optimistisk" kan det göras, och påpekar att modern medicin har gjort imponerande framsteg trots att den bara funnits i 100 år eller så. "I dag är det bara fyra sorters sjukdomar som orsakar majoriteten av dödsfallen", säger han på Facebook. "Vi kan göra framsteg på alla dem med rätt teknik." Chan Zuckerberg Initiative anlitade därför neurovetenskaps- och genetikexperten dr Cori Bargmann för att leda insatsen. Och 600 miljoner dollar av dess tre miljarder kommer att gå till Chan Zuckerberg Biohub forskningsanläggning. Maktparet startade Chan Zuckerberg Initiative efter deras dotters födelse förra året, och lovade att ge bort 99% av deras förmögenhet.
“Let it never be said that Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan do not dream big. On Wednesday, Facebook founder and his wife announced a $3 billion plan to eradicate diseases by the end of the century, reports Variety. "It's about the future we want for our daughter and our children everywhere," says Zuckerberg in a post on Facebook. "If there's a chance we can help cure all the diseases in our children's lives, then we will do our part." Chan, who scratched when he talked about telling parents that their children have an incurable illness, says the hope is to "cure, prevent or deal with all diseases within our children's lifetime", according to USA Today. It may sound farfetched, but Zuckerberg says he is "optimistic" it can be done, pointing out that modern medicine has made impressive progress despite only being around for 100 years or so. "Today, only four types of disease cause the majority of deaths," he says on Facebook. "We can make progress on all those with the right technology." The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative therefore hired neuroscience and genetics expert Dr. Cori Bargmann to lead the effort. And $600 million of its $3 billion will go to Chan Zuckerberg Biohub research facility. The power couple started the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative after their daughter's birth last year, promising to give away 99% of their wealth.