NEW YORK, September 22. /Offset. TASS Kirill Volkov/. The founder of social network Facebook mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are going in the next ten years to invest $ 3 billion on a research project on the fight against all existing diseases. This wife announced on Wednesday, speaking at a press event in San Francisco, California.
This initiative is aimed at developing methods of treatment, prevention and control for all possible diseases from childhood. In particular, the mentioned sum of $ 600 million will go to establish a research center to develop measures of the timely detection and prevention of diseases. The complex will be located in San Francisco and will unite in their walls leading bioengineers and experts in the field of medicine.
the First projects the new center will be, in particular, the development of special chip that can diagnose any infectious diseases and to monitor the circulation” and the creation of “Atlas of cells”. It will include a description of all possible cells in the human body and their various States to facilitate the creation of new drugs.
“We spend 50 times more on treating those who are sick, than invest in research, to ensure that people originally got sick,” said Zuckerberg. He added that the new initiative also involves the study of the latest methods of combating infectious diseases, including the development of new medical technology, tests, and vaccines against such viruses like Ebola, HIV and Zeke. The head of Facebook has expressed hope that all tasks will be achieved by the end of this century.
last year, Zuckerberg and Chan promised to end their lives to distribute almost all of the Facebook shares that they own, to charity. “The goals on which we will focus, primarily, is individual training, treatment of disease, bringing people together and building strong communities,” noted Zuckerberg. In the course of our lives we give 99% of his shares in Facebook, which is currently worth 45 billion dollars, to advance in these areas”.
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