REUTERS: Bill Gates makes $100 million personal investment to fight Alzheimer’s
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, someone develops the disease in the United States every 66 seconds. And, one in three seniors will die of Alzheimer’s or other dementia related diseases.
