The Spring Walks Are Coming!

Please Join Us!

Upstate Walk to Defeat ALS : Sunday, April 19
Heritage Park

Midlands Walk to Defeat ALS : Saturday, April 25
Saluda Shoals

H.O.P.E. Race: Saturday, May 30
Isle of Palms, South Carolina
http://www.alshoperace.com/

ALS Association and American Academy of Neurology Give Scientists Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research The ALS Association joins the American Academy of Neurology in presenting The 2009 Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research to two clinician scientists who have significantly impacted clinical trials, epidemiology and genetics in ALS. Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Associate Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., is an international leader of clinical therapeutics in ALS. She is co-founder and co-director of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS) a clinical trials network of 76 clinical sites throughout the U.S. and Canada dedicated to performing academic led clinical trials. Dr. Orla Hardiman, Professor of Neurology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland, developed the longest running population based register of ALS in the world. The register is now part of the European ALS group, founded by Dr. Hardiman.   Read full story

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