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Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged to “end all illness” with a $3bn donation to medical research.
The couple, who have previously committed 99 per cent of their Facebook shares to charity, said the money, distributed by the Chan Zuckerberg initiative created last year, would be designed to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”, reports Hugo Greenhalgh, Wealth Correspondent.
Speaking at a press conference in San Franscisco, Mr Zuckerberg said the money would be spent in three distinct ways: to share knowledge between scientists and engineers; to determine how technology could be harnessed for research purposes; and to join forces with others around the world to greater fund scientific endeavour.
Source: Financial Times