However, it is quite significant enough to start getting excited about it. Cori Bargmann, the neurobiologist, whose graduate student research, gave way to some first gene-targeted cancer treatments, will lead the project. There are three main goals for the CZI. They will foster collaboration scientist teams and labs across multiple universities over great periods of time.
They will focus on developing things which will be ready to eradicate diseases instead of simply treating them. They will also improve and expand the scientific funding writ large. Biohub is the first step towards accomplishing such goals.
With over 600 million dollars funding over the next decade, the first project will be to create a map of the locations and functions of every cell in the human body, which will be further known as Cell Atlas. Biologists will use it as a high resolution resource to dig in deeply into the origins of the disease.
The second project is known as the Infectious Disease Initiative. It will focus on the long term development of tools which will eradicate infectious diseases. The scientists will also be offered five-year fellowships to work on risky, ambitious ideas which they would have trouble working on, if they relied on funding from more traditional resources.
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