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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