Letter of concern to Mark Zuckerberg from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative-funded scientists

Jason Shepherd
15 min readJun 6, 2020

This is a letter of concern that was sent to Mark Zuckerberg Saturday June 6th. Currently there are signatures from 277 scientists, of which ~120 are principal investigators who are direct awardees of CZI or CZ Biohub funds, as well as CZI employees — including over 107 professors at leading US research institutions, with 2 Nobel Laureates. Signatures from CZI-funded scientists will continue to be collected.

Co-organizers are Dr. Martin Kampmann, UCSF and Dr. Debora Marks, Harvard…

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Jason Shepherd

Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and holds the Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair at the University of Utah. @jasonsynaptic www.shepherdlab.org