Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Chan Admits Nobel Prize Winners Laughed at Goal to Cure All Disease
No Priors Podcast
Biohub: The Future of Biology is Open-Source with Co-Founders Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, and Head of Science Alex Rives
"We had a series of hilarious meetings with scientists that, like, famous Nobel Prize-winning scientists were just laughing at us. People thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now I think it's like too conservative."
Priscilla Chan revealed that when she and Mark Zuckerberg first proposed curing all diseases by 2100, Nobel laureates openly mocked them. The couple persisted in asking why it was impossible until scientists admitted the real barriers were organizational—siloed work, lack of shared tools, and poor information sharing—rather than fundamental scientific impossibility. This insight shaped BioHub's entire strategy.
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