The current issue of Neuroscience journal is dedicated to the staggering contributions to science made by longtime Project ALS Research Advisory Board Chair Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, before his death from the rare neurodegenerative disease progressive supranuclear palsy on April 28, 2019, at 67.
While COVID-19 profoundly affected its day-to-day operations, The Project ALS Therapeutics Core at Columbia generated new approaches to disease modeling and genetic engineering technologies in 2020.
When Project ALS decided to move prosetin to clinical trial independently, we were newcomers to drug development. Our first task: assembling a team of experts
Project ALS, along with the rest of the world, has faced serious headwinds this year—but we regrouped, focused our priorities, and have taken significant strides
The key to finding better drugs at the Project ALS Therapeutics Core at Columbia (THE CORE) is developing better pre-clinical laboratory models of ALS. A
MEET THE CORE: SUSAN BRENNER-MORTON Susan Brenner-Morton is an antibody expert who has spent decades developing these specialized tools to help us understand how motor
Project ALS presents TOMORROW IS TONIGHT A Virtual Celebration hosted by Richard Kind & Friends Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 • 7:30 PM Now more than
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Five years ago, Raleigh, North Carolina’s own Chris Combs, a loving husband and father of three young children, was diagnosed out of nowhere with ALS.
Earlier this month, we reached a big regulatory milestone: Prosetin received Orphan Drug Designation, or orphan status, for the treatment of ALS from the Food
In our biweekly webinars, we have described the process of developing Prosetin—the first potential investigational drug to emerge from The Project ALS Therapeutics Core at
The Wasserman family has experienced first-hand the devastating effects of neurodegenerative diseases: Sandra Wasserman lost her beloved husband to Parkinson’s disease, and her son to
