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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's network of research institutes building cell atlases, imaging and AI tools that cancer researchers rely on, including the Tabula Sapiens single-cell atlas.
Also called: CZ BiohubChan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
Overview
Founded in 2016 in San Francisco as a collaboration of UCSF, Stanford and UC Berkeley, and expanded into a network with Biohubs in Chicago and New York, the CZ Biohub builds technologies for measuring and modelling human biology rather than pursuing single diseases. Its Tabula Sapiens project produced a whole-body single-cell atlas, its imaging and microscopy programmes enable spatial and live-cell measurement, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Virtual Cell effort funds AI models of cellular state. Biohub New York engineers immune cells to detect and treat disease, including cancer, while Biohub Chicago builds sensors for inflammation. The Investigator programme funds faculty at the founding universities.
Location
San Francisco, US
Type
research institute
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#289 · 22 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 22 from 11 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-24.
Matched to Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, including child institutions. 10 works · 179 citations · 80% open access · 0% clinical trials · 0% reviews.
Oncology works per year
12022
02023
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12025
82026
Most works
- K. Christopher García2 works
- Justin Eyquem2 works
- Ansuman T. Satpathy2 works
- Rogelio Antonio Hernández-López2 works
- Tanja Kortemme1 works
- Oliver Takacsi-Nagy1 works
- Kevin M. Jude1 works
- Matthias Obenaus1 works
- Taira Kiyota1 works
- Rong‐Fu Wang1 works
Most cited
- Tabula Sapiens single-cell atlas
- Biohub New York (engineered immune cells)
- Imaging and microscopy platforms
- CZI Virtual Cell and open-source tools (cellxgene)
Priscilla Chan
Paediatrician who, with Mark Zuckerberg, founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the CZ Biohub
Basic biology fundingCell atlasesDisease-agnostic science philanthropy
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.
Silvana Konermann
Executive Director and Core Investigator, Arc Institute
Functional genomicsCRISPR technologiesNeurodegeneration
Neuroscientist and co-founder who runs the Arc Institute, an independent research institute in the San Francisco Bay Area built to tackle complex diseases.
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