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It's one of the holy grails of science: a cure for Alzheimer's. Currently, there is no treatment to stop the disease, let alone slow its progression. And billionaire Bill Gates thinks he will change that.
"I believe there is a solution," he told me without hesitation.
"Any type of treatment would be a huge advance from where we are today," he said, but "the long-term goal has got to be cure."
Bill Gates' newest mission: Curing Alzheimer's
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
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Every 66 seconds, a new case of Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed
More than 5 million Americans live with the disease
"I believe there is a solution," he told me without hesitation.
"Any type of treatment would be a huge advance from where we are today," he said, but "the long-term goal has got to be cure."
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I had the chance to sit down with Gates recently to talk about his newest initiative. He sat in front of our cameras exclusively to tell me how he hopes to find a cure to a disease that now steals the memories and other cognitive functions of 47 million people around the world.
For Gates, the fight is personal. He is investing $50 million of his own money into the Dementia Discovery Fund, a private-public research partnership focused on some of the more novel ideas about what drives the brain disease, such as looking at a brain cell's immune system. It's the first time Gates has made a commitment to a noncommunicable disease. The work done through his foundation has focused primarily on infectious diseases such as HIV, malaria and polio.
I have interviewed Gates many times over the years, in countries around the world. He was more engaged on this topic of Alzheimer's than I've ever seen before.
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