THE PROJECT ALS MISSION
Project ALS identifies and funds the most promising scientific research that will lead to the first effective treatments and a cure for ALS. We recruit the world’s best scientists and doctors to work together—rationally and aggressively—to develop a better understanding of the ALS disease process and, in parallel, better therapeutic strategies.
Read about the latest updates in ALS research, and see the Project ALS research philosophy – something we’re proud to say has accelerated the pace of research.
WHAT'S NEW WITH PROJECT ALS
26 Years Later…
WHY ARE WE STILL HERE 26 YEARS LATER? Dear Project ALS family, If you’d asked me 26 years ago whether I’d still be working at Project ALS—whether Project ALS would still be chasing down medicine and cures, I’d have told you that you were nuts. I’d have told you that I was nuts. I mean how long does it take the world’s smartest people to figure out a brain disease?
BREAKING NEWS
Dear Friends, BREAKING NEWS: The all-new drug developed by the Project ALS Therapeutics Core for the treatment of ALS, is now moving into Phase 1 trial for people with ALS. You made prosetin happen during the pandemic. You made prosetin happen when we went back to the lab for fine-tuning. You made prosetin happen for the first parts of Phase 1, when prosetin was tried in those without ALS in