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ALS News Today Covers Dr. Feldman at #AANAM2022

April 29, 2022

From the ALS News Today website: #AAN2022 – How Environmental Exposure Affects ALS Risk Is Studied by Marta Figueiredo PhD | April 28, 2022 Researchers at the University of Michigan are focused on establishing cause and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Press Tagged With: AAN, AANAM, ALS, Dr. Eva Feldman, Press

Team Pranger Competes in Active Against ALS Box Car Derby

April 11, 2022

Staff from the Pranger ALS Clinic at Michigan Medicine teamed up to join Active Against ALS for their Annual Box Car Derby. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Active Against ALS, ALS Awareness

Platinum Level Awarded by Office of Sustainability

March 15, 2022

Gold is nice, but platinum is even better. U-M's Office of Campus Sustainability raised the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies (lab for the ALS Center of Excellence) lab's certification to platinum, the highest level offered … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Award

ACT for ALS Passes both U.S. House and Senate

December 17, 2021

On December 16, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies (ACT) for ALS Act (S. 1813/H.R.3537), following passage in the House the week before. There was unanimous support from Michigan’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ALS, ALS Funding, Legislation

Do Pesticides Cause ALS? Michigan Answers

December 1, 2021

Beginning mid-November, "Do pesticides cause ALS?" began to appear on over 40 digital billboards across southeastern Michigan.  The Michigan Answer's campaign chose to highlight the research of Drs. Eva Feldman, Stephen Goutman … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ALS

Remembering Dr. Bob Schoeni: Friend, Colleague and Ally Against ALS

October 15, 2021

photo of Drs. Eva Feldman, Bob Schoeni and Gretchen Spreitzer at the A2A3 Gala in 2018

Dear Friends, Perhaps more than any other couple in Michigan, Bob and Gretchen have led the ALS community with their advocacy and representation of life with this devastating disease. When they learned of his diagnosis, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ALS

Dr. Benjamin Murdock Featured on CReATe Podcast About ALS

October 8, 2021

  Associate Professor Benjamin Murdock, Ph.D., speaks about the immune system and ALS on the podcase for the Clinical Research in ALS and Related Disorders for Therapeutic Development (CReATe) Consortium. The C(link … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, News Tagged With: ALS, podcast

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

National ALS Registry Meeting 2021: Featuring Dr. Goutman

September 1, 2021

photo of Dr. Stephen Goutman

The Center for Disease Control (CDC)(link is external) has been a key longtime ally in our fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), both by funding research initiatives as the ALS Center of Excellence and in the … [Read more...]

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