NEW YORK (360Dx) – Bill Gates and Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Leonard Lauder today announced a new initiative to develop new biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Gates, Lauder, and others have committed more than $30 million to the initiative called Diagnostics Accelerator. Other philanthropists who are providing funding include the Dolby family and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.