The ALS Association

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• ALS Advocates Secure Rare Bipartisan Support for End to Five-Month Wait for Social Security Disability Insurance

  12/8/2020

  Congress passed a law ending the five-month waiting period for people with ALS to access Social Security Disability Insurance benefits on Tuesday.

• 33 Organizations Representing Millions of Patients Urge Policymakers to Adopt "Patient-First" Policy Agenda

  10/13/2020

  A coalition of 33 organizations representing millions of people with pre-existing conditions launched an unprecedented effort by releasing their top priorities for the next Administration.

• ALS Association, I AM ALS Call On FDA, Amylyx to Make AMX0035 Available to People with ALS

  9/2/2020

  In response to the New England Journal of Medicine publication of encouraging clinical trial results showing that Amylyx Pharmaceuticals' AMX0035 brought statistically significant benefit to people living with ALS, The ALS Association and I AM ALS immediately called on the drug company and the FDA to make the treatment widely available as soon as possible.

• The ALS Association, I AM ALS Award BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics $500,000 for ALS Biomarker Study

  6/9/2020

  The ALS Association and I AM ALS announced that the organizations have awarded a combined grant of $500,000 to BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, to support an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis biomarker research study.

• The ALS Association Awards Bloom Science to Develop Novel Gut Microbiota-based Therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

  3/17/2020

  Bloom Science, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of medicines tailored for individual patients living with neurological diseases, has received a $500,000 grant from The ALS Association.

• ALS Association Makes Multi-Year Commitment to HEALEY ALS Platform Trial

  1/14/2020

  The ALS Association announced a $3 million commitment to the first platform trial for ALS, taking place at the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Mass General in collaboration with the Barrow Neurological Institute and the Northeast ALS Consortium.

• New ALS Association Partnership with ALS Investment Fund Targets $100 Million in New Funding for ALS Therapeutic Development

  12/4/2019

  The ALS Association is partnering with, and will be directly investing in, the ALS Investment Fund II to raise $100 million to accelerate investment in ALS research and development.

• Ice Bucket Challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS

  6/4/2019

  New report shows significant increases in ALS research spending, researchers funded, collaborations, dollars leveraged

• The ALS Association Partners with GNS Healthcare to Apply AI to Accelerate Answer ALS Research

  7/31/2018

  GNS Healthcare to combine its powerful, causal machine learning technology with the comprehensive Answer ALS patient datasets

• New ALS Gene Discovered: KIF5A

  3/21/2018

  Researchers have identified a new ALS gene: KIF5A.

• Researchers Demonstrate Therapeutic Antibodies Stabilize Nerve-Muscle Synapses in a Mouse Model of ALS

  2/20/2018

  Research funded by The ALS Association's Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Drug Development Program recently uncovered a new way to slow muscle paralysis in mice with ALS, findings that could point to new approaches to therapy for people with ALS.

• The ALS Association Welcomes MT Pharma America As National Corporate Sponsor

  9/21/2016

• The ALS Association Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead To Significant Gene Discovery

  7/25/2016

• The ALS Association And ALS Finding A Cure Announce Joint Funding Support For Amylyx Clinical Trial Of AMX0035 For The Treatment Of ALS

  7/20/2016

• PhRMA And The ALS Association Report More Than 560 Medicines In Development For Rare Diseases

  5/9/2016

• The ALS Association And Cytokinetics Ring In May As ALS Awareness Month At NASDAQ

  5/2/2016

• The ALS Association Release: Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi Receives The 2016 Sheila Essey Award For ALS Research

  4/18/2016

• The ALS Association Awards Origent Data Sciences A Grant To Enable A Research Partnership With Cytokinetics

  3/31/2016

• The ALS Association And Prize4Life Announce Partnership To Expand ALS Research Web Community

  3/21/2016

• The ALS Association And Prize4Life Announce First Phase Winners Of The ALS Assistive Technology Challenge, Launch $400,000 Prize Phase

  3/9/2016