{"entity":{"id":"priscilla-chan","kind":"person","name":"Priscilla Chan","aka":["Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg","Chan Zuckerberg Initiative"],"tldr":"She and Mark Zuckerberg founded the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub with the stated mission to cure or prevent all disease; its programmes include engineering the immune system to detect cancer and other diseases early.","summary":"Priscilla Chan, a paediatrician, and her husband Mark Zuckerberg founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2015 and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in 2016 with UCSF, Stanford and UC Berkeley. The Biohub states its mission as to cure or prevent all disease, and its programmes include programming the immune system for early detection of disease, developing AI models and engineered cells to detect early signs of age-related diseases including cancer, and building tools for molecular-level measurement of inflammation in human tissues. CZI's science funding is deliberately disease-agnostic: cell atlases, imaging, open software and AI models of cells are meant to serve every disease, cancer among them. Founding sums are not stated on the pages consulted for this record and are not repeated here.","asOf":"2026-09-10","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Chan","links":[{"label":"Chan Zuckerberg Biohub","url":"https://biohub.org/"},{"label":"Chan Zuckerberg Science","url":"https://chanzuckerberg.com/science/"}],"tags":["hero","donor"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["early-detection","immunotherapy"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["cz-biohub","ucsf","stanford"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-early-detection","b-funding-allocation","b-data-silos"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Paediatrician who, with Mark Zuckerberg, founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the CZ Biohub","specialisms":["Basic biology funding","Cell atlases","Disease-agnostic science philanthropy"],"profiles":[],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/priscilla-chan/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"},{"id":"immunotherapy","kind":"section","name":"Immunotherapy","route":"/fronts/immunotherapy/"}],"institution":[{"id":"cz-biohub","kind":"institution","name":"Chan Zuckerberg Biohub","route":"/institutions/cz-biohub/"},{"id":"stanford","kind":"institution","name":"Stanford Health Care / Stanford Cancer Institute","route":"/institutions/stanford/"},{"id":"ucsf","kind":"institution","name":"UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/ucsf/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-data-silos","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Data silos","route":"/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/"},{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"},{"id":"b-early-detection","kind":"bottleneck","name":"The hardest cancers are found late","route":"/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/"}]}}