Frankly, I don't think we necessarily need more money in Alzheimer's research. We just need to stop burning that cash on amyloid drugs and clinical trials for a

Frankly, I don't think we necessarily need more money in Alzheimer's research. We just need to stop burning that cash on amyloid drugs and clinical trials for amyloid drugs. What the whole saga of oncology over the past few decades has revealed is that understanding the actual cause and pathology of a disease is crucial to unlocking new treatments and cures - it wasn't until we understood cancer as a cellular disease that we developed chemotherapy, and it wasn't until we understood it as a genetic disease and characterized the role of the immune system that we began making progress with targeted therapies and immunotherapies. We don't understand neurodegeneration yet, and we're probably lumping together hundreds of different disease pathologies under the name "alzheimers," each needing a different treatment approach. If we took the money we've been burning on the same dead end and redirected it to basic research, that might be what best helps crack the code.