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Bill Gates backs Alzheimer’s diagnostics with new Diagnostics Accelerator venture fund

by Ryan Cross
July 20, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 30

 

Bill Gates is pumping more money into Alzheimer’s research. Gates and other philanthropists, including Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation cofounder Leonard Lauder, will invest more than $30 million in a new venture fund called Diagnostics Accelerator. The fund will back researchers developing better ways to diagnose the neurodegenerative disease, since drugs are more likely to treat it if it is diagnosed early. In November, Gates pledged $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund in the U.K.

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