Bill Gates to make $100 million donation to fight Alzheimer's, Dementia

SAN ANTONIO – Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, is making a huge personal donation in the fight against Alzheimer’s.

Gates will be donating $50 million to Dementia Discovery Fund and another $50 million toward Alzheimer’s research by way of start-ups.

“It’ll take probably 10 years before new theories are tried enough times to give them a high chance of success. So it’s very hard to hazard a guess (when an effective drug might be developed),” Gates said, according to Reuters.

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Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and affects nearly 50 million people worldwide.

One in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.