Priscilla Chan’s parents fled Vietnam by boat; their daughter became the first in her family to attend college and later pledged millions to scientific research

• Priscilla Chan’s journey from the daughter of Vietnamese refugees to a Harvard graduate, paediatrician and major science philanthropist is rooted in a family story shaped by war and migration.
• Her grandparents put her parents, who were teenagers at the time, on boats to flee Vietnam during the war.
• Chan grew up in Massachusetts, where her parents worked to build a new life after arriving in the US as refugees.