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Science
Inside Philanthropy: Why Chan Zuckerberg is Devoting Millions to Open Source Software for Scientists
This piece was published in Inside Philanthropy on June 24, 2020. To an important degree, scientific research advances as a...
Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $2 Million to medRxiv, a Health Sciences Preprint Server and Top... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $2 Million to medRxiv, a Health Sciences Preprint Server and Top Source of Breaking...
Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 11/2/21. Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $2...
Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces New Funding Opportunity to Bring More Engineering Expertise to... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces New Funding Opportunity to Bring More Engineering Expertise to Biomedical Imaging
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and...
Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8 Million for Open Source Software Projects Essential to... Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $3.8 Million for Open Source Software Projects Essential to Science
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3.8 million in funding for 23 grants to support open source software...
Science
New Single-Cell Technologies Help Scientists Understand COVID-19 Disease Progression
Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 7/26/22. Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $750,000...
COVID-19
STAT: Striking Down DACA Would Eliminate Thousands of Health Care Workers, Thwarting America’s... STAT: Striking Down DACA Would Eliminate Thousands of Health Care Workers, Thwarting America’s Pandemic Response
This piece was published in STAT on May 1, 2020. The health care community has a responsibility to anticipate worst-case...
COVID-19
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative COVID 19 Response
We want to share with you some of the encouraging work of our partners and grantees leading COVID-19 response efforts.
Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $14 Million to Support Inflammation Research
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $14 million in funding to support 29 interdisciplinary teams and build...
Science
CZI, CZ Biohub, UCSF, and Stanford Launch 9-Month, $13.6 Million Research Collaboration to... CZI, CZ Biohub, UCSF, and Stanford Launch 9-Month, $13.6 Million Research Collaboration to Understand Prevalence of...
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) committed $13.6 million to stand up a large-scale research collaboration between...
Science
UCSF to Offer Free COVID-19 Test Analysis, Results to Public Health Departments of All 58 California... UCSF to Offer Free COVID-19 Test Analysis, Results to Public Health Departments of All 58 California Counties
Last week, UC San Francisco began offering COVID-19 sample analysis to all nine Bay Area counties’ Departments of Public...
Science
UCSF to Offer Free COVID-19 Testing to Nine Bay Area Counties
Following a recent expansion of its COVID-19 test processing capacity at a new diagnostic laboratory adjacent to the Chan...
Science
CZI Commits $25 Million to Speed Development of COVID-19 Treatments
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) committed $25 million to the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator — a global...
Science
UCSF, CZI, CZ Biohub, & the State of California Partner to Expand & Utilize Clinical... UCSF, CZI, CZ Biohub, & the State of California Partner to Expand & Utilize Clinical Testing Capacity fo...
Supported by an executive order from California Governor Gavin Newsom, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the Chan...
Science
New Dataset Makes Coronavirus Research Open and Machine Readable
Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 11/2/21. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative collaborated with leaders in...
Science
CZI & CZ Biohub to Quadruple UCSF COVID-19 Testing Capabilities
A newly-created ‘COVID-19 Task Force’, which includes representation from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Chan...
Science
Chan Zuckerberg ID Helps Researchers in Cambodia Confirm the Country’s First Case of COVID-19
Editor’s Note: This release has been updated as of 12/17/21. A partnership between the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,...
Science
Fast Company: Why Patients Have Begun to Lead the Way in the Fight Against Rare Diseases
This piece was published in Fast Company on February 26, 2020. Several years ago, I was working in the White House Office of...
