The ALS Association, ALS Finding a Cure (ALSFAC), and MDA have jointly awarded a $2.5 million clinical trial grant to Dr. Stanley Appel and his team of researchers at the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, and Dr. Merit Cudkowicz and his team at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The funding award will allow Dr. Appel to expand the first-in-human study that demonstrated promising results leveraging patients’ own immune cells to treat ALS. [Read more…]