SAN FRANCISCO: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife on Wednesday pledged $3 billion over the next decade to help banish or manage all disease, pouring some of the Facebook founder’s fortune into innovative research. “This is a big goal,” Zuckerberg said at a San Francisco event announcing the effort of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative established by the couple. While the funding effort is for the next decade, Zuckerberg and his wife said they hope to achieve their objective of by the end of this century. Zuckerberg and Chan also hoped that their project would power a movement to fund more medical research around the world. Gates praised Zuckerberg and Chan for taking on a “very bold, very ambitious” challenge.

Source: Manila Times September 21, 2016 20:26 UTC