Comment, "How the Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative plans to solve disease by 2100", Nature

Andy · Jan 4, 2018

Its president, Cori Bargmann, sets out three ways to accelerate science — creativity, openness and shareable resources.
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The mission of the Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative, founded in 2016 by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is to support science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century. It’s a bold goal. But the end of the century is still 82 years away. Going back in time a similar distance, much of modern medicine would have been unthinkable — from organ transplants and deep brain stimulation to treating cancer by manipulating the immune system.

All of these advances were built on a foundation of basic biomedical science. To enable the next generation of discoveries, we at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative want all of biomedical science to be faster, more robust, sharable and scalable. We’re starting a number of different programmes — both locally and globally — to try out ideas for accelerating science and driving collaboration.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08966-z

Alvin · Jan 4, 2018

Laudable goal, not sure if it can be done but if no one tries then we can't succeed and more resources into research will definitely mean more progress.

Snow Leopard · Jan 4, 2018

Wildly optimistic, but that's what we've come to expect from Silicon Valley boffins right?

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