Zuckerberg and Chan aim sky high with $3bn boost for war on disease
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CE Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have pledged more than $3bn toward a plan to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime".Speaking through tears at the announcement on Wednesday in San Francisco, Chan said she hoped to spare parents the pain she had seen while delivering difficult news as a pediatrician."We’re at the limit of what we understand about the human body and disease, the science behind medicine, the limit of our ability to alleviate suffering. We want to push back that boundary," she said.READ THIS: Zuckerberg commits 99% of his Facebook stock to philanthropy projectsThe event was attended by business and political leaders including former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee and California lieutenant-governor Gavin Newsom.Zuckerberg said science and the medical community made rapid advancements in the past 50 years, including eradicating smallpox and nearly eliminating polio without the aid...
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