Priscilla Chan

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, that's right.

We got to know each other then.

And we've been crisscrossing paths.

And I personally remember the day you won the Nobel Prize for

It was in the heart of the pandemic and a lot of celebrations were happening over Zoom.

And I grabbed my then five-year-old and got on to the UCSF celebration.

And I was like, look, this is happening.

And it was really cool for me and for my daughter.

Yeah.

So at CZI, we work on basic science research.

And I think that often surprises people because they know that I'm a pediatrician.

And so they often think, oh, you must work in healthcare or healthcare delivery.

And we've actually chosen very intentionally to work in basic science research, in part because my training as a pediatrician at UCSF.

As you both know, UCSF is a tertiary quaternary care center where we see very unusual and rare cases of pediatric presentations.

And it was there where I learned how little we knew about rare diseases and diseases in general and how powerful patients were and that research was the pipeline for hope and for new discoveries for these families that often otherwise don't have very much access to treatments or cures.

They have a PDF that maybe describes what their child has.

And so I decided to invest in basic science through CZI, but always saw the power of bringing rare disease patient cohorts.

One, because if you've ever met a parent of a child with rare disease, you know they are a force to be reckoned with.