“We founded Project
A.L.S on the notion that ALS would be solved
not by brilliant individuals working in isolation, but by committed aggressive teams of researchers working together. It was the American way. It was our way. It was the only way we were going to win this thing.”
Jenifer Estess, Project A.L.S. co-founder
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August 31, 2009
Jenifer Estess Laboratory for Stem Cell Research
The world’s first and only privately funded lab dedicated exclusively to stem cells and ALS.
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Jenifer Estess Laboratory for Stem Cell Research.
October 2, 2009
Research Progress
at the Jenifer Estess Lab
Human motor neurons and astrocytes (pictured here) derived from patient stem cells allow scientists in the Project A.L.S. lab to study ALS live and up-close.
These new stem cell-derived models also give scientists new drug targets for drug discovery.
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December 10, 2009
Breaking News
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER A NEW ROLE FOR INTERNEURONS: MODULATING THE PERFORMANCE OF MOTOR NEURONS AND MUSCLES
Major Implications for ALS
It is well established that motor neurons send signals directly to muscles
to make them contract. In the December 10, '09 issue of the journal Neuron...
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/08966273
March 2, 2009 New ALS Gene DiscoveredProject A.L.S. Advisor Robert H. Brown Leads Team In Discovery Of Novel Genetic Mutations In Familial ALS. As reported in the February 27 issue of Science, scientists led by Project A.L.S. adviser Robert H.Brown Jr. have... |
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March 10, 2010 Save the Date
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January 29, 2010 Project A.L.S. and Packard Center Take Aim at ALS with $15 Million ProgramLeading Researchers Unite for P2 ALS, a 3-Year Mission to Understand and Treat the Neurodegenerative Disease...
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December 16, 2008 TIME MAGAZINE NAMES PROJECT A.L.S. MILESTONE #1 MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF 2008Major Implications for ALS. As originally reported in the July 31 online issue of the journal Science, a Project A.L.S.-funded collaboration... |
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The mission of Project A.L.S. is to recruit the world’s best research scientists and clinicians to work together toward an understanding of and the first effective treatments for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Project A.L.S. was founded in 1998, as a non-profit 501C3, by Jenifer Estess, her family, and friends, when Jenifer was diagnosed with the fatal brain disease at the age of thirty-five. To date, Project A.L.S. has raised over $42 million, directing 81% to research programs.
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