Billionaire family pledges USD 200m for Alzheimer’s drug research

Continuing on work started in 1998, the Lauder family is making a multimillion-dollar pledge to the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.
Photo: Britta Pedersen/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Britta Pedersen/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
By Amanda Gordon, bloomberg

The billionaire Lauder family has been all-in on Alzheimer’s research since 1998, when brothers Ronald and Leonard set up the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation as their mother Estee battled the disease. 

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