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As part of its Tribute Awards, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) will honor Alan Pestronk, MD, co-director of the MDA & ALS Care Center at Washington University School of Medicine. The Tribute Awards recognizes those “who have been tireless in their efforts” to support members of the neuromuscular disease…
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NeuroSense Therapeutics has joined EverythingALS’s open innovation consortium to accelerate the development of treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). NeuroSense will provide financial support for ongoing research projects from the patient-focused nonprofit organization, such as those that seek to identify biological and digital biomarkers to help detect and monitor ALS.
NeuroSense Therapeutics and NeuraLight are collaborating to identify digital biomarkers, particularly those drawn from facial videos, that would help in detecting and monitoring amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases. Called occulometric biomarkers, they are derived from videos of patients’ faces captured on a webcam and analyzed…
Albrioza, an oral therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) still widely known as AMX0035, is now commercially available in Canada, its developer, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, announced. Its market availability comes about 1.5 months after the therapy was conditionally approved by Health Canada for this neurodegenerative disease. The regulatory decision was based on…
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