The ALS Therapy Development Institute has just signed a research partnership with Chaperone Therapeutics, Inc., a company that specializes in treatments that address protein misfolding and neuronal cell loss, the underlying causes of neurodegenerative disease. The new partners will be working on potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in order to facilitate preclinical development…

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the United States and the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom recently revealed a new fly model to study motor neuron degeneration. The study was published in the journal Current Biology and is entitled “…

One of the country’s most accomplished professors of neurosurgery, neural and behavioral sciences and pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, James Connor, has just received a three-year grant worth $240,000 from the ALS Society to support his work on a nutrition-based solution that can be given via pain-medication delivery…

This month, the disease awareness campaign that took the internet and Hollywood by storm is making a comeback. Thanks to the renewed joint efforts of co-founders Pete Frates, Pat Quinn and Anthony Senerchia, a number of celebrities, the Boston Red Sox and Major League Basketball (MLB), the viral ALS Ice…

It has already been a year since the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge took the internet by storm, causing countless American households, celebrities and public figures to show support for ongoing efforts to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In the wake of the viral campaign, a team of scientists…

Biopharmaceutical company, Neuralstem, Inc. has just announced the US District Court in Maryland has decided to dismiss StemCell, Inc.’s previously filed patent infringement case with prejudice in StemCells, Inc. v. Neuralstem, Inc. in favor of Neuralstem, on July 22, 2015. Neuralstem is most known for its proprietary stem cell technology. It has…

MediciNova, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company established in San Diego, recently announced in a press release that an abstract centered on the ongoing clinical trial evaluating the company’s product MN-166 (ibudilast) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been accepted for a presentation at the 26th International Symposium on…

The ALS Association has announced $1.4 million in new funding awarded to advance the search and discovery of biomarkers correlating with key clinical and pathological aspects associated with ALS disease progression. The new funding will be paired with a $539,000 match donation intended for support of ongoing ALS research. There…

Last year a monumental push to increase research funding for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), known as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, raised over $220 million globally for ALS research and patient care.  The video based social media challenge is set to return this year beginning July 31st. Co-founder Pat…

Social media sensation The Ice Bucket Challenge (an event that raised awareness for ALS) is celebrating its one-year anniversary, with the Project A.L.S. reporting it has now spent 100 percent of the donations raised during the 6-week challenge period on several research projects that have already revealed promising results. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal and progressive…