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ALS Risk Higher Among Production Workers

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“Research Into Preventing ALS…”

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Dr. Feldman Given Highest University of Michigan Honor

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Multidisciplinary Team Publishes Paper on ALS Occupational Risk

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The ANA Q&A: Dr. Eva Feldman on ALS

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An Interview With Ben Murdock, PhD, Inaugural Epstein Emerging Scholar

May 6, 2022

The inaugural Robert A. Epstein and Joan M. Chernoff-Epstein Emerging Scholar is Ben Murdock Ph.D., and we caught up with him about the research this gift will support. Why is studying the immune system important for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grants, News Tagged With: ALS, Drug Therapy, Emerging Scholar, Immunology, Murdock

Announcing NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award

October 5, 2021

A high-risk, high-reward approach to ALS... Neurologists say it’s time for a moonshot for their patients with ALS, the neurodegenerative disease that is always deadly, often in just a few years or less. ALS, also known as Lou … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grants, News Tagged With: ALS, grant, NIH

New CDC Grant Funds Multidisciplinary Study of Air Pollution & ALS

October 4, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million people die annually as a result of outdoor air pollution.  It has been causally linked to multiple neurodegenerative diseases, leading it to be identified as one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grants, News Tagged With: Air Pollution, ALS, CDC, grant

New Grant: ALS Mini Brains with the Biointerfaces Institute

August 26, 2021

Dr. Eva Feldman and Dr. Jeorg Lahann, Director of the Biointerfaces Institute, talk about their groundbreaking work in creating disease-specific mini brains to study ALS. … [Read more...]

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Drs. Goutman & Murdock Receive Important NIH Grant

June 8, 2021

Two leaders in the field of ALS research have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).   As the oldest and largest grant from the NIH, an R01 is a major step forward in the career of any medical researcher. … [Read more...]

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The ALS Association Awards Ben Murdock, Ph.D, 3-year Grant

November 4, 2019

The ALS grant will fund the study of NK cells' relationship to ALS and work to push a new drug therapy into clinical trials. The Program for Neurology Research & Discovery (PNRD) has received a new three-year $100,000 grant … [Read more...]

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Stephen Goutman, M.D., M.S., Receives ALS Association Grant to Study Environment and Genetics

October 31, 2019

An ALS Association grant will help Stephen Goutman, M.D., M.S., associate director of the University of Michigan (U-M) ALS Center of Excellence, answer the most common question asked by patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral … [Read more...]

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