Chan: Curing disease requires uniting academia and industry via non-profit neutrality
Priscilla Chan · “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg · Jun 10, 2026 · at 19:51
Priscilla Chan (co-founder of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) explains why a neutral nonprofit structure is necessary to address the full breadth of human disease.
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“The sort of neutral nonprofit nature of our work actually helps harness more people to enter this effort. And to actually achieve the mission of, like, understanding the totality of human biology and to cure, prevent, manage all diseases, you actually do need the entire academic Biotech industry to come together and to work on this in a sort of unified way”
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