The Future Without Disease: Shaping the Next Era of Science

This keynote session from SXSW features Dr. Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in conversation with Bloomberg Originals host Emily Chang, exploring how generative AI is revolutionizing medicine. Discover CZI's ambitious vision to develop AI-powered "virtual cells" - digital models capable of predicting human cell behavior. Learn about their construction of one of the largest AI computing clusters for nonprofit life science research, enabling biomedicine AI at scale with potential for accelerated medical breakthroughs, real-time health monitoring, and advanced treatments. Explore the significant challenges scientists face in this endeavor, including knowledge gaps in understanding the 37 trillion cells in the human body, the complexity of modeling dynamic cellular functions across multiple scales, and the need for vast amounts of high-quality data. Understand the critical importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and open science in overcoming these hurdles as part of CZI's mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century.