This was one of the biggest highlights of my creator career — truly a moment I’ll never forget.
This week, I sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan — pediatrician, co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the woman quietly leading a mission to cure all disease.
It was her first creator interview ever (!!).
She was warm, focused, and deeply purposeful — every word had weight.
There was also a deeply personal moment for me.
Back in 2015, Priscilla and Mark shared publicly that they’d experienced several miscarriages before welcoming their first daughter, Max.
That same year, I was going through the same struggle. When they spoke about it, it meant the world to me — it made me realize I wasn’t alone.
It took us four years to have our first child.
And sitting across from her now, I finally got to say thank you — something I’d wanted to say for almost a decade.
When Priscilla was still treating children at UCSF, she realized that most of her young patients suffered from conditions science couldn’t even name. That moment, she said, “shook my understanding of medicine.”
Over the past decade, she and Mark have invested over $7 billion in mapping human cells and using AI to understand how diseases start — and how they can end.
They’ve also committed 99% of their wealth to this mission — to cure all disease by the end of the century.
But with AI, she believes we might get there much faster!!
“Our mission is to cure or prevent all disease. We used to say by the end of the century — but with AI, it might be much sooner,” she told me.
One of her teams is now designing a tiny immune monitor — a wearable sensor that tracks how immune cells talk to each other.
It can detect flares before you feel symptoms. Imagine a patch that tells you your immune system is starting to go off balance — days before a cold, or before an autoimmune flare.
It sounds like science fiction. But she says it’s already being tested.
Until now, biology was 90% experimental and only 10% computational. AI is flipping that ratio — and that’s how breakthroughs like this are becoming possible.
She’s one of the kindest and most disciplined people I’ve ever met. Everything she does has a purpose.
“I’m not a scientist myself,” she told me. “My job is to remove barriers so scientists can move faster.”
That line stayed with me. It says everything about how she leads — focused, humble, unstoppable.
This conversation meant so much to me — both as a creator and as a mom.
It would mean the world if you watched it and shared what you think in the comments ❤️