Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century by committing $3 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate basic scientific research.
The goal includes 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 couple spoke with The Associated Press in their home in Palo Alto, California.
'So if you
even just assume that we'll be able to continue to make progress on
that same trajectory, then that implies that by the end of this century
we will have been able to solve most of these types of things,'
Zuckerberg said in an interview.
He emphasized 'that this isn't something where we just read a book and decided we're going to do.' because they have spent the past two years speaking to scientists and other experts to plan the endeavor.
