Zuckerberg and Chan announce a New York biohub to build disease-fighting cellular machines
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan, will announce on Wednesday plans to invest $250 million over 10 years to establish a new “biohub” in New York City focused on building a new class of cellular machines that can surveil the body and snuff out disease.
The new initiative, previewed exclusively to STAT, is the latest program from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, a company the couple founded in 2015 to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease by 2100. It joins the original San Francisco Biohub founded in 2016 and a Chicago Biohub founded earlier this year.
