Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he and his wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, will devotemore than $3 billion to medical research with the ambitious goal of ultimately preventing, curing or managing "all diseases in our children's lifetime" has understandably garnered a lot of attention. Also skepticism.
To end or manage disease within the next 100 years may sound too pie-in-the-sky to some, but biomedical science could accomplish amazing things in the next century. Zuckerberg did caution that “we have to be patient. This is hard stuff,” and indeed it is. Still, I trust that his gift will serve as a significant catalyst, bringing scientists together to spark ground-breaking research into the genomic and cellular causes of disease.
[For more of this story, written by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, go to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...dress-lavizzo-mourey]
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