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From TechCrunch, December 7:
On 5th anniversary, the CZI’s science program announces new institutes and efforts in biotech
It’s been five years since the founding of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Science program (not CZI itself, which is a year older), which has proven to be quite a generous patron of cutting-edge biotech science and research, and far from winding down, the organization is stepping on the gas as good outcomes from its grants and internal work pile up.
“Working as partners with scientists, patients, and open source communities, we’ve learned so much during these first five years of our science journey about where we can have the best impact in accelerating biomedicine. Now we’re ready to begin our next chapter,” said Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of CZI (with husband Mark Zuckerberg, of course), in a press release.
The organization has funded hundreds of experiments, projects, trials and other essential basic research. While we don’t always cover the projects themselves, being rather technical in nature, the value of this focused and highly curated giving is pretty clear. (Though it is not without its critics.)....
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