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September 28, 2005
CytRx Corporation Testing 'Fast Track' ALS Drug in Clinical Trial

August 2, 2005
New ALSA Drug Screening Effort To Search for ALS Therapies

March 13, 2005
New Gene Silencing Technique Promising in Animal Studies Funded by The ALS Association

March 2, 2005
Evidence of Retrovirus in Blood of ALS Patients

February 19, 2005
ALSA Co-sponsors First International FTD/ALS Workshop

February 17, 2005
Leads for ALS Therapeutics Inhibit Aggregation of Mutant SOD1

February 2, 2005
Epidemiology Studies Explore Potential Risk Factors for ALS

February 2, 2005
ALSA Renews Funding for Two Key Strategies Toward ALS Therapy

January 30, 2005
New ALS Therapies Suggested in Stem Cell Research

January 19, 2005
Specific Genes Identified in Developing Motor Neurons

January 14, 2005
ALSA Renews Grant to Tactonic as Rat Model Supplier

January 10, 2005
VEGF Delivered Directly to Brain Prolongs Rat Model Survival

January 5, 2005
Screening Effort Identifies Ceftriaxone as Potential ALS Therapeutic

December 17, 2004
ALSA Presents Mulder Award

December 1, 2004
ALS Association Funded Research at Neuroscience 2004

November 24, 2004
Progress Cited in ALSA-Funded Research

November 24, 2004
ALSA Funds SOD1 Screen for ALS

November 19, 2004
ALSA Funds Mouse Mutagenesis Research

November 4, 2004
ALSA Funds New Model ALS System

October 28, 2004
Pilot Clinical Trial will Test Diaphragm Stimulation Device

October 28, 2004
Study Looks at Nutrition and Breathing in ALS

October 24, 2004
Update on Stem Cell Treatments in China

October 21, 2004
Neuroscience 2004

September 29, 2004
Department of Veterans Affairs Establishes ALS DNA Bank

September 16, 2004
ALSA Collaborates on Pre-Clinical Gene Trial Study

September 1, 2004
Webcast Features Research into ALS

August 6, 2004
Update on Stem Cell Research and Potential Treatments for ALS

August 3, 2004
ALS Prevalence Studies Underway Near Hazardous Waste Sites

August 2, 2004
BioTech Company Reports RNAi Could be a Treatment for SOD1 ALS

July 7, 2004
ALS Research Accelerates

July 1, 2004
ALSA's Young Investigators Workshop Report

July 1, 2004
Clinical Studies Update

June 29, 2004
Glatiramer Acetate Pilot Study for ALS

June 7, 2004
Delayed onset and increased survival in ALS mice treated with VEGF

May 20, 2004
Drug Company Reports RNAi Could Be Treatment For Patients With SOD1 ALS

May 7, 2004
ALSA-Funded Enterovirus Research Update

April 26, 2004
Nigel Leigh Honored with Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research

February 2, 2004
ALSA Funds New Biomarker Study Seeking Faster and More Accurate Diagnosis of ALS

April 12, 2005
Cognitive Changes May Be Associated with ALS

July 16, 2007
Israeli Entrepreneur Honored with Prize





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