That his interest in social issues is broad and deep-rooted is nothing new, but today's news concerns the expansion of the commitment that Mark Zuckerberg intends to make on these issues.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the non-profit charitable foundation that Facebook's number one launched together with his wife Priscilla Chan, will invest more than 3 billion dollars over the next ten years in order to develop technologies to speed up medical research.
Going into details, the foundation will begin by allocating 600 million dollars to create Biohub, a research laboratory in San Francisco, where carefully selected engineers, researchers and scientists will work from the most prestigious Californian universities: the University of California, San Francisco, the Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
“Focusing on the creation of tools is a road map on how we can approach the treatment, prevention and management of all diseases of this century. If new tools can be developed that allow us to see these diseases in new ways, scientists around the world could make much faster progress,” Zuckerberg said.
