a16z|Nov 06, 2025 17:34
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on Curing All Disease
We sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to discuss their ambitious plan to cure, prevent, and manage all disease by the end of the century.
CZI’s Biohub aims to generate vast biological datasets to train new frontier AI models to guide scientists in the lab, creating a feedback loop to accelerate the pace of basic science and take us towards a world without disease.
00:00 Introduction
03:42 Building tools to accelerate scientific discovery
07:03 Biohub = Frontier Biology + Frontier AI
13:32 "Most diseases should be thought of as rare diseases”
15:39 Inspiration: building a periodic table for biology
19:27 Why virtual cells?
21:17 The Biohub master plan
33:36 The importance of interface design in democratizing scientific discovery
35:34 How Biohub encourages cross-functional collaboration
40:38 Looking ahead: the broader impact of AI on biotech
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