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Top Story EGCG (Green Tea Extract)
7/31/2006
ALS TDF tested EGCG in response to a report of efficacy in mice in another lab. The results are now in.


Recent News
TDF Announces 2006 Leadership Award Winners
8/3/2006
Named after the very people who have inspired our work, supported our mission, and fueled our spirit, the Leadership Awards honor those who are leading us in the battle against ALS.

TDF Launches New Mouse Study Approach
5/31/2006
ALS TDF began a major research initiative recently to understand the molecular mechanism at play in the ALS mouse – the changes in the RNA, proteins and metabolites that are behind the axonal death.

ALS TDF Preps for Leadership Summit
5/8/2006


For two days in June, patients, family, friends and leaders from across the country gathered in Cambridge for the second-annual ALS TDF Leadership Summit.

Mass Spectrometry Core at ALS TDF
3/24/2006
ALS TDF recently added a new Mass Spectrometry Core to our lab, and hired veteran scientist Dr. Nels Mahle to run it.

Need an Answer? Ask Our New Treatment Investigator
3/24/2006
Dr. John McCarty's job is to know about every new ALS treatment idea - and get to the bottom of it.

Letter from the Director
3/24/2006
We’re launching a new discovery research program that will let us dissect ALS piece by piece, gene by gene and protein by protein. Combined with our therapeutic development program, we will evaluate comprehensively each potential target until we find one or several that truly impacts ALS.

Documentary “So Much So Fast” Premiers at Sundance
3/24/2006
ALS TDF attracts attention for the processes and techniques we’ve developed in trying to find a treatment. This film is the best expression of our people and passion.

ALS Patient Finishes Ironman
3/24/2006
Jon Blais had always dreamed of competing at the Ironman World Championship. And he wasn't going to let anything stop him.

ALS TDF Leadership Awards
2/2/2006
This year we will continue the annual tradition of honoring those who are fighting ALS everyday the very best way they know how. We have named these awards after very special people who have inspired our work, supported our mission, and fueled our spirit in our battle against ALS.

FasterCures Takes on the System
3/24/2006
ALS TDF joins with group dedicated to speeding the process of discovery and clinical development of new therapies for treating deadly and debilitating diseases. In other words, “saving lives by saving time.”

Letter from Kim Julian, Driving 4 Life Founder
3/24/2006
Driving 4 Life events raised $1.5 million in 2005, surpassing a $3 million dollar milestone in less than three years!

The Principal with Principles
3/24/2006
We are honored to announce ALS TDF's summer high school internship program will be named for board member Jenny Huntington.

Dr. Peter Lansbury: ALS TDF Scientific Advisory Board Member Spotlight
3/24/2006
"I have been increasingly frustrated by the fact that, although great strides were being made in basic science, advances were not improving the lives of patients,” says Dr. Lansbury.

R(+) Pramipexole
3/22/2006
ALS TDF tested R(+) pramipexole in response to reports of efficacy in mice in another lab - a result used in part to support a human clinical trial in ALS.

Sodium phenylbutyrate
3/22/2006
Researchers hypothesize that sodium phenylbutyrate affects pathways such as histone acetylation - which affects gene expression, glutamine metabolism and hemoglobin regulation - and could potentially function as a chemical chaperone, thus promoting or modifying stability of proteins.

KDI
3/2/2006
ALS TDF fast-tracks KDI as an ALS mouse study in response to significant interest by the ALS community. The results of that study are now in.

Report on 2005 MND/ALS Meeting in Dublin
1/12/2006
As expected, the 2005 MND/ALS meeting in Dublin provided an excellent insight into the state of the art in the international research...



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