Jeff Be­zos teams with Bill Gates to fund new and bet­ter ways to di­ag­nose Alzheimer’s

The world’s wealth­i­est man is chip­ping in­to a new fund from one of the oth­er rich­est men on the plan­et to fi­nance a hunt for new, bet­ter and cheap­er ways to di­ag­nose Alzheimer’s.

E-tail mogul Jeff Be­zos — along­side his es­tranged wife MacKen­zie — added $15 mil­lion to the $35 mil­lion Bill Gates helped put to­geth­er for the di­ag­nos­tics work be­ing done by the Alzheimer’s Drug Dis­cov­ery Foun­da­tion.

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