Zuckerbergs pledge 3 billion dollars to fight disease

“This is a big goal,” Zuckerberg said at a San Francisco event announcing the effort of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative established by the couple. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had their daughter Max late last year. Shortly after, they pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook holdings or some 45 billion dollars to “advance human potential and promote equality.” At Wednesday’s event, Zuckerberg said their goal is to cure all diseases, or at least turn catastrophic illnesses from terminal to manageable or preventable within their daughter’s lifetime. The first investment being made as part of what the Zuckerbergs hoped would become a “collective” effort will be 600 million dollars for the creation of a Biohub in San Francisco where researchers, scientists and others will work to build tools to better study and understand diseases.