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Project ALS was the first organization to use stem cells to model human ALS; this practice is now used worldwide. Project ALS scientists also use patient stem cells to screen for drugs.
Project ALS was the first organization to use stem cells to model human ALS; this practice is now used worldwide. Project ALS scientists also use patient stem cells to screen for drugs.
Project ALS forced a culture shift in ALS research; our first and most crucial breakthrough. In 1998, ALS researchers worked mostly in isolation, often even competing against one another. Project ALS transformed this approach, recruiting world-leading scientists from different fields to work on ALS together, meet regularly, and share data openly. Due to this shift, there has been more advancement towards a cure for ALS in the past 20 years than in the previous 100.
Uplifting Athletes will honor Project ALS-funded Columbia University researcher Emily Lowry, PhD, with one of its first five Young Investigator Awards. Uplifting Athletes, a nonprofit
Alejandro Garcia, who began working with Project ALS in 2009 as a research technician, and eventually lab manager of the Jenifer Estess Stem Cell Lab
Meet Elizabeth Adelson, a neuroscience student at Yale University whom Project ALS will sponsor this summer, along with 4 other students, for a research internship
Named in honor of former Project ALS board member and inspiration Tom Kirchhoff, the Tom Kirchhoff Family Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Project ALS is given to
An exciting Project-ALS funded study on the involvement of the gene TDP-43 in ALS-frontotemporal dementia. Understanding how TDP-43 contributes to neurodegeneration will help direct therapeutic
The Project ALS Pre-Clinical Core at the Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University is the most recent effort to put drugs through rigorous testing—so that
New ALS gene is identified: Project ALS researchers play critical role in the identification of KIF5A, which gives scientists a better understanding of ALS and
A. Ai Yamamoto, Ph.D. The acclaimed Columbia neuroscientist, a leading researcher in autophagy–or protein trafficking–in Huntington’s, has turned her talents to ALS. Project ALS recruited
Project ALS hosted Women & the Brain: A Night of Comedy on March 8th at City Winery in New York. Women & the Brain, an
Stu Hendel, his family, friends, and colleagues, raised $1.2 million for promising ALS drug testing on January 22nd at the Hunt & Fish Club in
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