Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds Bay Area effort to track coronavirus as the economy reopens
A new research initiative backed by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, aims to track the coronavirus pandemic and identify emerging hot spots as the economy reopens in the Bay Area.
Through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — a limited liability company established with Facebook shares by Zuckerberg and Chan in 2015 — the couple is donating $13.6 million to a pair of studies that kick off next month with Stanford University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the research center known as the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
