Tag: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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Gates, Zuckerberg partner to halt spread of infectious diseases
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced a partnership with the Gates Foundation to get an exciting new tool called IDseq, built by Biohub, into the hands of more people around the world in order to fight the spread of infectious diseases to a halt. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Facebook founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg…
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Video: Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement 2017 speech
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Thursday returned to Harvard, where he dropped out, to give commencement speech to the class of 2017 and received an honorary doctorate degree, Doctor of Laws, in the process. In his ‘Purpose’ speech, Zuckerberg touched on several issues ranging from politics and the need to build a better world. Here…
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Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Harvard Commencement 2017 speech
President Faust, Board of Overseers, faculty, alumni, friends, proud parents, members of the ad board, and graduates of the greatest university in the world, I’m honored to be with you today because, let’s face it, you accomplished something I never could. If I get through this speech, it’ll be the first time I actually finish…
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Facebook founder, Zuckerberg returns to Harvard, bags honorary doctorate degree
Mark Zuckerberg, who famously dropped out of Harvard in 2004 to move to Silicon Valley to work on a little website called The Facebook, on Thursday returned to give commencement speech to the class of 2017 and received an honorary doctorate degree in the process. “If I get through this speech today, it will be…
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Zuckerberg partnership builds scientific pre-publishing platform, bioRxiv
With the view to cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced a partnership to support and further build bioRxiv, a platform for scientists to pre-publish research works. Announcing the bioRxiv partnership, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook and co-founder of the CZI, said “I’m excited the Chan…