Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease
The a16z Show
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Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease

The a16z Show
2 DAYS AGO
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As part of our summer replay series, we're revisiting one of our favorite conversations from the past year. Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan join Ben Horowitz, Vineeta Agarwala, and Erik Torenberg to discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's ambitiou...
Highlights
Highlights
In this episode, Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan join Ben Horowitz, Vineeta Agarwala, and Erik Torenberg to discuss the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's ambitious effort to help cure, prevent, and manage disease by the end of the century. Rather than funding individual breakthroughs, CZI is focused on building the tools and infrastructure that can accelerate scientific discovery across entire fields.
Chapters
Chapters
Building the 'Periodic Table' of Biology: CZI's Mission to Cure Disease by Century's End
00:00From Skepticism to Breakthroughs: Combining Frontier Biology with AI to Create Virtual Cell Models
05:16Precision Medicine for Everyone: How Biohubs and Cell Atlases Are Mapping Individual Biology
10:14Testing Hypotheses in Silicon: How AI Can De-Risk Biological Research Before Wet-Lab Experiments
18:53Uniting Teams and Tools: How CZI is Accelerating Biology and AI Research Through Philanthropy
27:48Transcript
Transcript
Mark Zuckerberg: This is a space that, I mean, if there's just going to be a huge amount of leverage with AI, it still seems like there could be a lot more effort in this space around building tools. And it's kind of this crazy thing that we're, you know, ...