Guest
Priscilla Chan
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Real Alpha has cut 5 moments of Priscilla Chan (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) talking, from an interview on a16z Podcast published Nov 6, 2025.
What Priscilla Chan said
- 15:18
A shared annotation tool helped create a cell atlas
“We've only funded 25% of it. 75% came from the broader community saying, this is useful and there's an easy way for us to standardize and build this together.”
at 17:40 - 11:22
Most diseases need treatment tailored to individual biology
“I really think most diseases should be thought of as rare diseases, because each one of our biology is different.”
at 13:23 - 28:00
A shared data-and-model loop is driving Biohub's reorganization
“the model is looking like it has some gaps and blind spots in this area. Okay, who do we talk to? How do we build the next data set?”
at 31:05 - 8:50
CZI takes on long-term projects with a credible path
“there's a credible pathway, someone who is at the helm who can do this, and there's enough ambiguity where we feel like we could take on that risk.”
at 9:49 - 38:17
Biohub is scaling compute instead of lab square footage
“we are not expanding like a lot of square footage per se, but we're expanding our compute.”
at 38:35
- 15:18
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