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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative joins Philanthropic and Community Partners to Discuss Innovative Solutions to Solving Bay Area's Housing Affordability Crisis

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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It brings a variety of voices into the effort ― from local governments, to non-profit and community advocacy partners and faith leaders.

Key Points: 
  • It brings a variety of voices into the effort ― from local governments, to non-profit and community advocacy partners and faith leaders.
  • "The housing crisis requires bold action on multiple fronts and it requires that all sectors come to the table to drive innovative solutions," said Fred Blackwell, CEO, San Francisco Foundation.
  • "Safe, stable, and affordable housing is crucial to a family's success and to building healthy and diverse communities," said Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the  Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  • Five years in, we've surpassed our fundraising goal and deployed that capital to provide housing for thousands of bay area residents."

CZI Launches AI Advisory Group and Residency Program to Accelerate Development of Virtual Cell Models

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced several key appointments and a new AI residency program to advance the organization's AI strategy for science, which is focused on building predictive models of healthy and diseased cells. Several AI experts from academia and industry have joined a newly established AI Advisory Group, which will provide guidance to leaders at CZI and across the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network as these organizations work to enable AI at scale for nonprofit life science research. In addition, CZI is launching an AI residency program to develop foundational AI/ML models and tools that will enable new scientific breakthroughs. Theofanis Karaletsos, a technology leader in AI/ML research and science, has also been hired as CZI's Head of Artificial Intelligence for Science.

Key Points: 
  • In addition, CZI is launching an AI residency program to develop foundational AI/ML models and tools that will enable new scientific breakthroughs.
  • These advisors have deep expertise in leveraging AI/ML models and methods to advance scientific research:
    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
  • Karaletsos will lead CZI's AI strategy for science, including the organization's vision to develop virtual cell models, utilizing one of the largest high-performance AI computing system s for nonprofit life science research.
  • He will collaborate with scientific leaders at CZI including Emma Lundberg, a member of CZI's AI Advisory Group and an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University, to launch an in-house AI Residency Program.

Stowers Institute Scientific Director Kausik Si receives coveted award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced the awardees of their second cycle of Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards, part of the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network (NDCN).

Key Points: 
  • Scientific Director Kausik Si, Ph.D., from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research will receive an award for the project titled, "Tuning memory by altering amyloids," which will be conducted alongside Investigator Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D., from the University of Texas Southwestern.
  • The Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards were launched in 2018 to investigate neurodegenerative disease biology by aligning two scientists with diverse expertise.
  • Following the success of the first cycle, the NDCN expanded the research scope beyond neurodegenerative disease, seeking proposals covering broader neuroscience biology.
  • "The award from CZI to Kausik and his collaborator is a nod to the Stowers Institute's focus on spurring discovery and contributing scientific insight into some of the most difficult problems in the life sciences," said Stowers Institute President and Chief Scientific Officer Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched by Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the University of Washington will turn cells into recording devices to unlock secrets of disease

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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SEATTLE, Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), and the University of Washington (UW) today announced the launch of the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology: a landmark collaboration that will build new technologies to record the history of cells over time. These technologies will help researchers crack the code and understand not just end point measurements of cells and genes in health and disease but the dynamics of their trajectories over time. The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology brings together the best of large-scale science and philanthropy with proven academic power to develop, refine, and share this paradigm-shifting single-cell technology. Led by UW Medicine researchers Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., Marion Pepper, Ph.D., Cole Trapnell, Ph.D., and Jesse Gray, Ph.D., the Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology will build on technology pioneered at the Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing and UW Medicine's Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine to reimagine living cells and genomes as devices for recording complex biological information over time.

Key Points: 
  • These technologies will help researchers crack the code and understand not just end point measurements of cells and genes in health and disease but the dynamics of their trajectories over time.
  • The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology brings together the best of large-scale science and philanthropy with proven academic power to develop, refine, and share this paradigm-shifting single-cell technology.
  • This new paradigm has the potential to revolutionize how scientists study the role of cells and genes in human health.
  • "Our shared values, paired with our complimentary perspectives and strengths, are a recipe for success, and I can't wait to see what this team will accomplish together."

Unlocking Student Potential: CZI Looks Back on 8 Years

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Thursday, November 30, 2023
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report highlights ways that CZI, over the past eight years, has worked with partners to support an education system that unlocks the full potential of every student, no matter who they are or where they live.

Key Points: 
  • CZI tools have reached 250K+ students in 46 states & D.C., and 1,000+ grants have supported 420+ organizations.
  • CZI has engaged educators and students to co-build research-based tools that make it easier for teachers to support overall student success.
  • We've also made grants to partner organizations working to help teachers and school leaders across the country reimagine education.
  • CZI continues to partner with educators and researchers to build tech-enabled tools that support the adoption of underutilized high-quality research and content — including projects CZI has supported over the past eight years.

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York Will Build Technologies To Monitor Health and Eradicate Disease

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced the launch of a new biomedical research hub in New York City that will catalyze collaboration between leading scientific and technology institutions in the area, with the goal of solving grand scientific challenges on 10- to 15-year time horizons. The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York (CZ Biohub NY) brings together Columbia University, The Rockefeller University, and Yale University to create new technologies to characterize and bioengineer immune cells — with the ultimate goal of creating disease-specific "cellular endoscopes" that can detect early stages of disease in cells, monitor cell changes, and resolve diseases before they become untreatable.

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  • The CZ Biohub NY is the fourth research institute in the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network , a groundbreaking collaborative model for scientific research.
  • The Network includes the first CZ Biohub, in San Francisco , a second in Chicago , and the Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging in Redwood City, California.
  • In addition to the funding from CZI, the State of New York and New York City are also contributing $10 million each to the CZ Biohub NY.
  • "With a world-class faculty, cutting-edge research, and a time-tested model for innovation, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub will help us continue to build the future of medicine in New York," Governor Hochul said.

Cellarity Announces Partnership with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Advance New Machine Learning Algorithms for Single-Cell Analysis

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Cellarity , a life sciences company founded by Flagship Pioneering to transform the way medicines are created, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) today announced a partnership to drive innovation in machine learning (ML) algorithms for single-cell analysis via support of the Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis initiative.

Key Points: 
  • Cellarity , a life sciences company founded by Flagship Pioneering to transform the way medicines are created, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) today announced a partnership to drive innovation in machine learning (ML) algorithms for single-cell analysis via support of the Open Problems in Single-Cell Analysis initiative.
  • “Single-cell biology is at the forefront of biomedical research and data science.
  • Now more than ever, we recognize the importance of benchmarks and challenges to help bring data science and cutting-edge computational approaches to single-cell biology,” said Jonah Cool, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer of the Single-Cell Biology program at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  • The goal of this competition is to leverage advances in representation learning to unlock new capabilities bridging data science, machine learning, and computational biology.

Chan Zuckerberg Science To Build AI GPU Cluster To Model Cell Systems

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the funding and building of one of the largest computing systems dedicated to nonprofit life science research in the world. This new effort will provide the scientific community with access to predictive models of healthy and diseased cells, which will lead to groundbreaking new discoveries that could help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century. The high-performance computing cluster, which is planned to comprise 1,000+ GPUs, will enable AI and large language models for biomedicine at scale.

Key Points: 
  • The high-performance computing cluster, which is planned to comprise 1,000+ GPUs, will enable AI and large language models for biomedicine at scale.
  • "AI is creating new opportunities in biomedicine, and building a high-performance computing cluster dedicated to life science research will accelerate progress on important scientific questions about how our cells work," said CZI Co-founder and Co-CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
  • AI systems such as AlphaFold and ESM have already made significant contributions to studying human biology.
  • CZ Science has employed many AI tools in its research for years, and this focus will unify our collective efforts to create a field-wide resource for better understanding cells and cell systems."

Every Cure Announces Foundational Funding Partners and Major Milestones at Clinton Global Initiative 2023 Meeting

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Monday, September 18, 2023
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Every Cure, a non-profit organization committed to unlocking additional diseases and patients that can benefit from existing drugs, announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2023 Meeting, four foundational funding partners. These partnerships with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Flagship Pioneering, Lyda Hill Philanthropies, and Elevate Prize Foundation will be used to discover new previously und­­­iscovered uses for existing approved drugs by leveraging novel artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Key Points: 
  • "Together, with our foundational funding partners, we will drive innovation and accelerate the discovery of new treatment options for devastating medical conditions, ultimately transforming the lives of countless individuals."
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a leading tech and philanthropic organization, is partnering by contributing funding and data science support.
  • In addition to making major discoveries that save lives, Every Cure will need to continue to raise awareness and disseminate findings among stakeholders.
  • For further information or to express interest in partnering with Every Cure, please contact Brent Shaw ( [email protected] , 818-876-2691).

Educators Turn Student Insights Into Action Using the Expanded Along Teacher-Student Connection Builder

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Along—a free teacher-student connection builder created by Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—has introduced expanded features for the 2023-2024 school year to integrate student voice for inclusive and engaging classrooms. The updated Along — named a 2023 Fast Company 'World Changing Idea' finalist and recipient of a Special Mention on TIME Best Inventions 2022—provides educators with a solution to strengthen connections with their students and to create and maintain trust year-round. The tool now offers educators ways to capture and integrate student input, as well as suggests actionable next steps on how to follow up. Educators can tailor their instruction based on student voices to impact academic outcomes and create a more inclusive classroom.

Key Points: 
  • The tool now offers educators ways to capture and integrate student input, as well as suggests actionable next steps on how to follow up.
  • Educators can tailor their instruction based on student voices to impact academic outcomes and create a more inclusive classroom.
  • "We know from continually talking to educators that they are looking for a solution to keep students motivated in the classroom.
  • Using that information, educators can make adjustments to instruction to cultivate an inclusive environment showing that student voices are valued.