On 2 June 2026, Bill Gates shared a new “Gates Notes” blog post called “We’re entering a golden age of Alzheimer’s research”. He opens with the words "I'll never forget the moment I learned that my dad had Alzheimer's disease" and goes on to describe feeling "powerless and scared", but nonetheless hopeful about a potential breakthrough. Despite this hope having proven to be unfounded for quite some time, and despite having since lost his father to the disease (in 2020), Mr Gates shares that he is excited that, finally, things are progressing in the field.
"We are entering a golden age of Alzheimer's research. Our knowledge of how the human brain works is growing at a tremendous rate, and it’s revolutionizing how scientists approach saving lives", he writes.
His blog post mentions his visit to the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and to the Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute at the University of Southern California (US) and he shares his perspective on the important progress being made at these (and other) important research centres around the world. He also discusses the roles of data, Artificial Intelligence and technological advances in accelerating progress.
Read the full blog post, here: https://gatesnot.es/42VAcuR
