Chan Zuckerberg Initiative updates and news from across our initiatives.

‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

CZI Logo ([link removed] )

Fall 2023

View in browser ([link removed] )

A Note from Priscilla Chan ([link removed] )

I'm always energized when I meet with teams across CZI to review our work as an organization. Earlier this summer, we held strategy reviews to reflect on the lessons we’ve learned and to discuss how we can build on the progress we’ve made. From these conversations, it became clear that the last several years have prepared us to leverage new, exciting technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress across our core focus areas.

In the scientific field specifically, researchers are already using AI to turn decades of scientific research into breakthroughs about the biomolecules — like proteins — that keep our bodies running. And with large language models and machine learning technologies advancing so quickly, AI can help us do so much more.

AI can assist us in analyzing the various types of cells in our body and how they interact — which we believe is key to demystifying disease and helping scientists cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century.

Before that can happen, researchers need to shift from using AI to create predictive models of molecules to using it to create predictive models of cells. It's like transitioning from tracking the orbit of a single planet to predicting the interactions of an entire solar system. We’ve helped the science community reach the point where that shift is possible.

We’re building one of the largest computing clusters in the world for non-profit life science research, with the goal of using it to create a new type of "virtual cell." It would give scientists worldwide access to digital models that could predict the behavior of any cell type and how it may respond to different conditions. For example, researchers could predict how an immune cell will react to an infection, or what’s happening at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease.

Watch our video to learn how we’re accelerating progress on important scientific questions about how our cells work.

Watch Our Video
([link removed] )

With care,

CO-FOUNDER AND CO-CEO

CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE

Stay Connected With the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Facebook ([link removed] )

Instagram ([link removed] )

Threads logo ([link removed] )

LinkedIn ([link removed] )

X logo ([link removed] )

YouTube ([link removed] )

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | P.O. Box 8040, Redwood City, CA 94063

Manage Preferences ([link removed] ) | Unsubscribe from All ([link removed] )