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Stanford will be one of three Bay Area universities — along with the University of California-San Francisco and the University of California-Berkeley — to participate in a new bioscience collaboration funded through a $600 million commitment by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, MD, created the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative after the birth of their daughter in 2015. On Sept. 21, the Initiative announced plans for a broader focus on science, its second major initiative, alongside work to improve education for all students. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s goal is to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century by accelerating basic science research. The Initiative seeks to support new ways of enabling scientists and engineers to work together to build new tools that will empower the whole scientific community and advance progress. The new Bay Area research collaboration, called the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, is the first scientific investment by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. It will include a combination of grants, research space focused on biotechnology-tool development, and large-scale collaborative projects. “The Biohub will be the sinew that ties together these three institutions in the Bay Area like never before,” said Stephen Quake, PhD, Stanford professor of bioengineering and of applied physics, who will co-lead the Biohub with Joseph DeRisi, PhD, professor and chair of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF.