Several years ago, Bill Gates partnered with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation to develop a philanthropic fund called the Diagnostics Accelerator. Our own Dr. Cecilia Lee is one of the award recipients of this funding effort to discover and develop new diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Lee's lab is exploring retinal imaging techniques to identify early signs of Alzheimer’s, including by using artificial intelligence to analyze the imaging and potentially find irregularities that are invisible to the human eye. Bill Gates featured her research on developing retinal biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in a recent Gates Notes blog post. Watch the video of Bill Gates describing this intiative and Dr. Lee discussing her research here.
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