I agree with this as a concept, I just don’t want him to be the one in charge of it.
Should we trust anyone with that?
These recent moves are not the first time Ellison has tried to tackle the problem of cancer detection or improvements in medical research. Ellison’s previous efforts in healthcare have included funding the creation of new hospitals and research centers, establishing a foundation, angel investing in biotech companies, and co-founding health startups of his own. Ellison donated $5 million to establish the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center at UC Davis in 1992, opened the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center at UC Davis in 1998, donated $200 million to the University of Southern California (USC) for the creation of the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (later renamed the Ellison Institute of Technology) in 2016, and established an Oxford campus of EIT in 2023.
Ellison also established the now inactive Ellison Medical Foundation in 1997 to provide research grants for reversing aging, cancer research, and infectious diseases.64 Discussing the foundation, Ellison explained, “I’d always been curious about the fundamental mechanisms of molecular biology, and now I had this big lever–lots of money–that enabled me to influence the direction the research was going.”65 Ellison also invested in several biotech startups focused on cancer detection, including Imagene AI and Quark.66 In 2018, he co-founded and seed funded the now-shuttered cancer detection startup, Project Ronin.67