Top Ten Families and Life Sciences: CZI Pledges $3 Billion for Scientific Research

In November 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, through their philanthropic organization the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), announced a pledge of $3 billion over the next decade for Life Sciences research, aiming to "cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century."

This massive commitment marked the deployment of private wealth and technological approaches by top ten families and technology billionaires on an unprecedented scale to solve humanity's greatest scientific and health challenges. CZI's philanthropic model combined the agility of investment firms with the long-term needs of scientific research, seeking to accelerate medical breakthroughs in the Future World.