Imagine the amount of lives that will be saved if this research ends up being a successful one.
Science and techno innovations are the only thing that can improve our health and our live in general, it has always been like that.
I wonder how much does a research like this actually cost?
obviously, I don't have anything resembling the real numbers
But that being said, equipment for a few hundred scientists will probably go into the hundreds of millions. Then you have the salaries for these top scientists, and you need to remember, they could get employed at high salaries in other companies, so let's a 100k per year x 200 scientists = 20 M per year just on salaries.
Thus, it's a lot.