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Zuckerberg-Chan Gift is Watershed Moment for UCSF Bioinformatics

Aug 02, 2017
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Neil Versel
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The Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, is two years old, but its true starting point may well turn out to be last week.

Friday, UCSF announced that the ICHS had received a $10 million gift from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. ICHS Director Atul Butte said the donation will really help get the institute off the ground.

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