Dr. Priscilla Chan

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The a16z Show · Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan: How AI Will Help Cure Disease · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

When we first set out the goal to cure and prevent disease by the end of the century, people, like, honestly, most scientists couldn't look at us with a straight face.

Yes.

And it was true because if you just decided to spend the money funding the next best grant for every single lab in the country, there's no pathway to that being true.

Thanks for having us.

It always surprises people when I talk about how we work in basic science research.

I trained as a pediatrician and people always think, oh, it must be about medicine.

And for me, I went into medicine because I wanted to improve people's lives.

I wanted to make a difference.

I wanted to be able to help others.

And I think training as a pediatrician at UCSF, I met a lot of patients and frankly, like little kids and families for which we just had no idea what the problem was.

And they might have a specific gene that they could name if they were lucky, or they could be grouped into a bunch of other diseases and there'd be a general sort of PDF they'd print out, like, this is what we know.

And then it was my job as an intern or resident to try to translate, like, a few lines of information to how we were supposed to take care of the patient.

And for me, that's when I really realized the power of basic science and how we need to work on basic science to advance science.

the forefront of what's possible, I think of it as the pipeline of hope.

Do you want to answer that one?

We're super focused on, like...

actually making every scientist better and beyond science, like startups, startup founders, because the point is we can't do this alone.

And when we first set out the goal to cure and prevent disease by the end of the century, people like, honestly, most scientists couldn't look at us with a straight face.

Yes.

And it was true because if you just decided to spend the money funding the next best grant for every single lab in the country, there's no pathway to that being true.

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