Inside STAT: Priscilla Chan's unglamorous quest to fight disease. (Mark is involved, too.)

PRISCILLA CHAN SPEAKS IN SAN FRANCISCO. (JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES)

When newly minted pediatrician Priscilla Chan took the stage with her Facebook co-founder husband Mark Zuckerberg in 2016 and pledged to cure all diseases within their children’s lifetimes, it could have been dismissed as just another lofty Silicon Valley goal. But more than three years later, the now almost 35-year-old Chan is insisting that the goal that she and her husband set is realistic. “We are serious about it,” Chan tells STAT’s Rebecca Robbins. “We think that if that’s our north star, we think it’s not impossible.” What has especially set Chan and Zuckerberg apart is the fact that they are taking a much broader view of disease, when others have focused in on specific conditions. “It’s not about one disease that’s important to me, or one specific question I want answered,” Chan says. Read more here.