Bill Gates is ready to tackle alzheimers.
Bill Gates—billionaire, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft—has announced that he is taking a huge and generous step toward helping us fight Alzheimer’s Disease: he is personally donating a total of $100 million to the cause, in hopes that we may someday soon find a way to treat or even cure the devastating condition.
The other half will be donated to startups that are looking into “less mainstream” takes on the disease. In other words, startups that are looking into treatments beyond those that involve amyloid and tau—two proteins in the brain that have been implicated in the development of dementia.“I hope those [mainstream] approaches succeed, but we need to back scientists with different, less mainstream ideas in case they don’t,” Gates explained on his blog, GatesNotes.
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