Bill Gates Is At It Again

Bill Gates, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft in 1975, is now making a mark on the medial industry. It was recently publicized that Gates will be investing $50 million dollars of his own money into the Dementia Discovery Fund, a “private-public research partnership focused on brain disease, such as looking at a brain cell’s immune system” (CNN.com). Other investors include Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline among others.

The DDF represents the first time that charity, government and the pharmaceutical industry have joined together on this scale with a venture capital firm with the combined aim of tackling a major global health issue (TheDDFund.com).

Gates recently sat down with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, to further discuss his participation and passion in find a cure for Alzheimer’s. According to Gates, several men in his family have been diagnosed with the disease and he has seen the struggle and heartache that it can cause. While this is certainly a reason for his generous funding, it is no the sole reason, he wants to make a difference!

With his donation, “Gates hopes to spur research into more novel ideas about the disease, like investigate the role of glial cells that activate the immune system of the brain or how the energy lifespan of a call may contribute to the disease”(CNN.com). Gates among many other scientists in the medical field truly believe a cure is in the near future.

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