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How the Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative plans to solve disease by 2100

Its president, Cori Bargmann, sets out three ways to accelerate science — creativity, openness and shareable resources.
  1. Cori Bargmann

    1. Cori Bargmann is president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in Palo Alto, California; and professor of genetics, neuroscience and behaviour at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA.

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Portrait of Cori Bargmann

Cori Bargmann heads the Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative, a philanthropic effort launched in late 2016 to support biomedical research. Credit: Yana Paskova for Nature

In 1987, I joined the lab of Robert Horvitz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow. I was fascinated by the idea of using genetics to probe the neural basis of behaviour. And a unique resource drew me to the tiny transparent worm Caenorhabditis elegans: a wiring diagram of the 302 neurons in the adult worm’s nervous system.

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Nature 553, 19-21 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-08966-z

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