Agent Maureen Plaisted

Happy Ada Lovelace Day to women, advocates and educators who are by making advancements in STEM! &
Before she was 30 years old, English mathematician Ada Lovelace created the first computer program and a vision for the future of computers beyond number crunching.
Swipe to see some of the women who are by building technology that will help us cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century.

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Happy ! To all the teachers out there - thank you for showing up day after day, especially over these past few years. Your presence has far reaching power for our students and our (
Photo of CZI co-founder Priscilla Chan with her high school teacher Mr. Swanson.

A new resource will make it easier for researchers to model neurodegenerative diseases in a dish.
Working alongside partners at the NIH and Jackson Lab, our grantees are launching a new game-changing collection of 400+ cell lines related to Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and Frontotemporal Degeneration. This collection will make it easier for scientists to study cells in a dish to learn more about what happens during neurodegenerative diseases.

Advancements in imaging have allowed entrepreneurs to explore the inner workings of the grant to amazing extents, but there are still limits. We're pushing the frontiers of imaging technology to enable researchers to view the building blocks of life in unprecedented detail in real time.
Photo of embrvos of the C. elegans nematode from CZI grantee Shwetadwip Chowdhury, University of Texas.

How can Al help us better understand how the brain works? And how can neuroscience help engineer smarter Al? That's what the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard aims to uncover. The Kempner Institute will bring together scientists and engineers to do the kind of research that can't be done in conventional settings to dramatically change our understanding of both neuroscience and Al.
Photo of CZI co-founders Priscilla and Mark at the launch event for the Kempner.