ALSA Awards Research Funds for New Investigations into the Cause and Treatment of ALS

The spring 2005 round of applications for ALSA now approved for a total of $1,669,984 in funding, includes a promise of new insight into the basic mechanisms underlying the death of motor neurons in ALS, and an invigorated search for new genes involved in the disease, and for therapies. New to ALSA are researchers of outstanding stature in their fields, who are turning their focus to ALS.

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The Milton Safenowitz Post-Doctoral Fellowship for ALS Research
Two Grants Awarded in August 2005

Two young investigators are joining the effort to find effective therapies for ALS, under an innovative program by The ALS Association funded by The Milton Safenowitz Post-Doctoral Fellowship for ALS Research.

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TREAT ALS Builds on Concrete Research Progress by The ALS Association

The ALS Association (ALSA) is committed to funding a diverse portfolio of research. A willingness to take risks brings researchers down new avenues. Some may prove to be dead ends. But all the routes to discovery explored in the past decade have produced evident progress in our understanding of the disease, progress that deserves to be brought rapidly into the clinic. ALSA has therefore launched a major new initiative to prioritize and bring promising compounds into clinical trials in a focused approach called Translational Research Advancing Therapy for ALS, or TREAT ALS.  

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