Weill Family Foundation Gifts UCSF with $185M to Build Neurosciences Institute
The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has announced that a new UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences will…
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ALS Patient, Husband Use Custom Wheelchair in Boston Marathon UMass Team
ALS Cellucci Fund runner Chris Benyo and his wife, Denise DiMarzo, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), are competing in…
ALS, MND Patients to Benefit from Free OptiKey On-screen Keyboard Software Allowing Hands-Free Computer Use
OptiKey is a free, assistive on-screen keyboard software for computers on the Windows operating system. It is designed…
Stuart Millheiser: The ALS Guardian Angel for the Holidays and Everyday
The ALS Guardian Angels Foundation, a 501(C)(3) charity founded in 2007 by retired drug company executive Stuart Millheiser, 63,…
Self-Calibration Enhances BrainGate Brain Computer Interface Ease, Reliability
Decoder innovations to the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface (BCI) being developed at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,…
Avalon-GSK Startup, Iron Horse Therapeutics, to Develop Novel ALS Treatments
Avalon Ventures, a venture capital firm that has founded and/or funded more than 127 information technology and life sciences…
Research At U. Pitt’s New Live Like Lou Center for ALS Research To investigate New Way Of Treating ALS
Dr. Christopher Donnelly, PhD, is the first recruit for the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute’s new Live Like Lou…
Completely Paralyzed Man Voluntarily Moves His Legs, Takes Thousands Of Steps
Almost 6 million Americans are living with some form of paralysis, including nearly 1.3 million who have suffered spinal cord…
Stanford Researchers Develop Brain-Controlled Prosthesis That’s Nearly As Good As One-finger Typing
Years of work by a team of researchers at Stanford University’s Engineering Department have finally succeeded in yielding a…
The ALS Association Announces Funding For Biomarker Development and Validation Projects
The ALS Association has announced $1.4 million in new funding awarded to advance the search and discovery of biomarkers correlating…