The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has announced the second cohort of the CZ Biohub Investigators.

With the goal of building engaged, collaborative communities of Bay Area scientists who undertake creative and innovative research, the Investigator program awards $1 million in unrestricted funds over five years to faculty members at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. Recipients attend regular CZ Biohub Investigator meetings and upload all manuscripts on which they are a corresponding author to open-access preprint servers upon submission to a peer-reviewed journal. Selected from nearly seven hundred applicants, this year’s eighty-six recipients represent disciplines including basic biological sciences, clinical biomedical sciences, chemistry, computer and data sciences, engineering, physics, public health, and statistics.

The funding for the latest cohort of investigators brings CZ Biohub’s total new commitments to Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF over the next five years to more than $100 million, including $21 million pledged earlier to help partner universities recruit new faculty, with a focus on increasing faculty diversity.

“This forward-thinking partnership brings together some of the most brilliant minds from UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Stanford to expand our collective understanding of disease across the globe,” said UCSF chancellor Sam Hawgood. “Through this initiative, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is expanding what is possible in bioscience and health research through innovative philanthropy. I am eager to see what advances this group of scholars will make through their collaborations.”

For a complete list of this year’s CZ Biohub Investigators, see the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub website.

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