Leveraging more than $3 million in support from The ALS Association, researchers from UMass Chan Medical School, the National Institutes of Health and Emory University have developed a cloud-based central repository of genetic data related to ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). ALS Compute compiles data from multiple large-scale initiatives into one easily accessible dataset that is far more powerful than any single dataset alone.
As ALS progresses, the ability to participate by playing and creating music can become more challenging with the loss of motor function. But that doesn’t mean the ability to create music, and the ability to collaborate with others around music is entirely gone. Enter DuoRhythmo.
We talked with Dr. Caiwei Guo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine, to learn more about her research, as well as her interests outside the lab.
This is a personal statement read by Jennifer Bernay on the 2021 virtual hill day held with the ALS Association Northern Ohio Chapter and members of congress representing the state of Ohio.