Grant - Winter 2018 - ALS – Target ALS
An urgent need exists in ALS research for biological indicators called biomarkers that can be used for diagnostic purposes, to measure disease progression and to assess drug performance in clinical trials.
MDA and the Target ALS Foundation announced a partnership in September 2016. Now, MDA has partnered again with Target ALS to provide $100,000 in support to advance the collaborative work of the Target ALS precompetitive biomarker initiative.
A recent poll of top pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) space ranked biomarker validation as a top priority in efforts to make ALS research more attractive to industry partners. This new collaboration between MDA, Target ALS and other organizations will leverage biofluids collected from ALS patients in the National Institutes of Health-supported CReATe consortium to independently validate a list of leading biomarkers.
Data will be shared in an open-access manner to benefit industry as well as the wider ALS community.
If successful, the work could help attract industry partners to the ALS therapy development space, accelerating the search for treatments and cures.
Grantee: ALS – Target ALS
Grant type: Infrastructure Grant
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