Zuckerberg donated $50 million to 47 diseases researcher Zuckerberg, Facebook-IT information

The evening of February 8, Beijing time news, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zukerberg) and his wife Priscilla (Priscilla Chan) co-founded the non-profit medical research institute Chen·zhakeboge bio Centre (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub) announced today that the diseases researchers will be donating 50 million dollars.

Chen·zhakeboge Aquatic Center is Zuckerberg and his wife spent $600 million to build the nonprofit medical research organization, members mainly from the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, engineers and researchers, whose mission is to conquer the world of all kinds of diseases .

This time, Chen·zhakeboge Aquatic Center in 700 applications selected in the table for the first batch of 47 researchers over the next 5 years, these researchers each will get $1.5 million in funding to support to the maximum, in order to complete its research projects.

In line with "the cure for all diseases, prevention and control," the premise of this goal, researchers in a wide range of optional study fields, such as organ printing, and cell aggregation. Chen·zhakeboge bio Centre is very ambitious. Many research institutes focus on only one disease, and Chen·zhakeboge Aquatic Center on the contrary, it concerns all diseases.

Zuckerberg and his wife announced in 2015, will donate shares to the charitable foundation of 99%, valued at about US $45 billion. Last year, the two men said it would invest more than 3 billion dollars to help scientists and engineers develop new tools and technologies aimed at 2,100 years ago, cure, control or eradication of all diseases.

Last November, LinkedIn co-founder LiDE·huofuman (Reid Hoffman) and his wife announced donated 20 million dollars to Chen·zhakeboge Aquatic Center.

扎克伯格向47位疾病研究人员捐款5000万美元 - 扎克伯格,Facebook - IT资讯

北京时间2月8日晚间消息，Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zukerberg)与妻子普莉希拉·陈(Priscilla Chan)共同创立的非营利医疗研究机构陈·扎克伯格生物中心(Chan Zuckerberg Biohub)今日宣布，将向疾病研究人员捐资5000万美元。

陈·扎克伯格生物中心是扎克伯格夫妇投入6亿美元建立的非营利性医疗研究机构，成员主要来自加州大学旧金山分校、斯坦福大学和加州大学伯克利分校的工程师和研究人员，其使命是攻克世界上的各种疾病。

此次，陈·扎克伯格生物中心在700份申请表中挑选出第一批47位研究人员，在未来5年内，这些研究人员每人最高可获得150万美元的资金支持，以完成其项目研究。

在符合“治愈、预防和控制所有疾病”这一目标的前提下，研究人员的可选研究领域非常广泛，如器官打印和细胞聚集等。陈·扎克伯格生物中心的目标非常远大。许多研究机构只专注于研究一种疾病，而陈·扎克伯格生物中心恰恰相反，它关注所有疾病。

扎克伯格夫妇2015年宣布，将捐出99%的股份给慈善基金会，价值约450亿美元。去年，二人表示将投入30多亿美元帮助科学家及工程师研发全新的工具和技术，争取在2100年前治愈、控制或根除所有疾病。

去年11月，LinkedIn联合创始人里德·霍夫曼(Reid Hoffman)与其妻子宣布向陈·扎克伯格生物中心捐款2000万美元。