THREE BILLION DOLLARS TO SAVE KIDS

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

San Francisco Local News Tonight:

Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have pledged $3 BILLION dollars over the next 10 years for curing children's diseases and others.

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

What a great thing they're doing!

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

I read this earlier today,

WONDERFUL

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

silentgirl · ‎08-19-2016

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

Local couple does good:

The money will be used to accelerate basic scientific research, including the creation of research tools - from software to hardware to yet-undiscovered techniques - they hope will ultimately lead to scientific breakthroughs, the way the microscope and DNA sequencing have in generations past.

The goal, which they are unlikely to live to see accomplished, is to "cure, prevent or manage all disease" in the next 80 or so years.

They acknowledge that this might sound crazy, but point to how far medicine and science have come in the last century - with vaccines, statins for heart disease, chemotherapy, and so on...

He and Ms Chan have spent the past two years speaking to scientists and other experts to plan the endeavour.

He emphasised "that this isn't something where we just read a book and decided we're going to do".

Through their philanthropic organisation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the commitment includes 600 million dollars (£462 million) to fund a new research centre in San Francisco where scientific and medical researchers will work alongside engineers on long-term projects spanning years or even decades.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/mark-zuckerberg-and-his-wife-pledge-three-billion-...