The ALS Association and ALS Finding a Cure® have awarded seven new grants worth a total of $2 million over the next three years to support the development of early diagnostics for ALS.
The ALS Association and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) are launching a research funding opportunity to support collaborative development of digital assessment tools for both ALS and frontotemporal degeneration (FTD).
The ALS Association submitted comments to the FDA’s Central and Peripheral Nervous System Advisory Committee, urging it to recommend approval of tofersen for people with ALS linked to a SOD1 gene mutation. The committee will meet virtually on March 22 to review data associated with Biogen’s new drug application.
The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Northeast ALS (NEALS) Consortium announced topline results from Regimen D of the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial, which is evaluating pridopidine versus placebo in adults with ALS.
The ALS Association has awarded $1.6 million to fund four promising preclinical research projects through its Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Drug Development Program.
Dr. Anuradhika Puri is a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University in St. Louis. We talked with her to learn more about her ALS research, as well as her interests outside the lab.
The ALS Association has awarded nearly $800,000 to support 16 innovative research projects that have the potential to significantly impact the experience of ALS by optimizing current care and treatments, finding new treatments and cures, and aiding with diagnosis and prevention.
The ALS Association has awarded more than $700,000 to support five promising early career scientists through its Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program encourages a pipeline of ALS researchers and innovative ideas that can lead to better ALS treatments and care.
We spoke with Pam Knott, vice president of data and technology at The ALS Association, to learn more about how the Association is harnessing the power and potential of big data to speed up the process of empowering people to live longer lives, to access care, to bring new treatments to market, and to reduce the harmful impact associated with the disease.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration awarded $3.7 million to three ALS research projects as part of the implementation of the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Act (ACT for ALS).