December 2016

Review: A Race to Raise Awareness in ‘The Ataxian’

A couple of years back, the ice bucket challenge was a social-media sensation, raising an estimated $115 million for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Not all such ailments receive that kind of visibility — or promotion.

Karyopharm and Collaborators Awarded Grant for ALS Research

a non-profit organization with the overall goal of accelerating development of new treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has granted $900,000 in research funding over a two-year period to support preclinical studies of KPT-350 in ALS.

8 Things You Should Know About ALS

But theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous sufferer of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—or ALS ... director of the ALS Clinic and Research Center at UCLA. The irony, Wiedau says, is that Hawking's battle with ALS is quite ...

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