Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Explained | Motor Neurone Disease | Pathophysiology Treatment | Deborah Osei-Sarfoh

11K views · 68 reactions | Join the Project ALS family and support critical research. Chris Combs, husband, father of 3, and former pitcher for the North Carolina State Wolfpack and Pittsburgh Pirates, was diagnosed with ALS in 2016. Watch his story and donate to Project ALS research now to bring us closer to a cure. | Project ALS | Facebook

Project ALS researcher Dr. Tom Maniatis, Columbia University, gives an update on ALS research. Watch below. Donate to Project ALS this holiday to fund this critical research and bring us closer to treatments. Link to donate: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/157004/#!/donation/checkout | Project ALS

ALS drugs are near. Project ALS has built a Pre-Clinical Core at Columbia University, an ALS drug-testing initiative, that utilizes 20 years of research breakthroughs to create and test drugs more accurately, and deliver the most promising of them to clinical trial. Read about the Core at projectals.org/our-research and help us bring drugs to clinical trial in 2019. Give today: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/211906/#!/donation/checkout | Project ALS

Jenifer Estess was a 35-year-old New York theater and film producer who was diagnosed—out of nowhere--with ALS. Her doctors told her to max out her credit cards and eat junk food—because they had no medicine to give her for ALS, a fatal brain disease. Jenifer made another choice. With her sisters, family and friends, she founded the non-profit Project ALS. Jenifer’s vision was to unite competing scientists to work together toward the first effective treatments. Project ALS built the world’s firs

ALS Walk for Life Chicago • Les Turner ALS Foundation

12 reactions · 3 comments | Meredith met Project ALS in 2013 when her mother, Carol Kleiner, was diagnosed with ALS at 57. The Kleiner family, with their friends and community, formed Carol's Crew & raised over $1.5M for the Kleiner Family Research Initiative at Project ALS. Join us for a conversation with Meredith on Tuesday, March 9th, at 1pm ET. Click here to register: https://bit.ly/2PESUob | Project ALS | Facebook

Teens can get ALS too. Help us find out why. Project ALS met with 7 mothers nationwide who lost their teenage daughters to ALS. Watch their stories. Support crucial ALS genetics research now so we can end this disease - forever. Give now: https://fundraise.projectals.org/give/211906/#!/donation/checkout | Project ALS