Join our 10th Annual Les Turner Symposium on ALS Registration is now open for our 10th Annual Symposium, hosted by our own Les Turner ALS Center at Northwestern Medicine. This year’s event will be held virtually on Nov, 9, and …
August 2020 Events eNews
$20,000 Triple Your Impact Challenge We’re kicking this Events eNews off with a new ALS Walk for Life Team Challenge! Starting today, the first 10 teams to register, raise $1,000 AND recruit 10 walkers will receive a $3 to $1 match ($2,000 …
August 2020 Foundation eNews
New and Improved Clinical Trials Webpage While it may feel like much in life is on pause at the moment, there is exciting news in the ALS clinical trials and studies space, including information on the upcoming HEALEY ALS Platform …
July 2020 Events eNews
Remembering Those We’ve Lost In remembrance of our loved ones lost to ALS, we’re hosting a Celebration of Life on Saturday, July 18 at 11am via Facebook Live. This will be a moving, 15-minute online service honoring those we have …
July 2020 Foundation eNews
HEALEY ALS Platform Clinical Trial Update Our Les Turner ALS Center at Northwestern Medicine is a participating site for the first-ever ALS platform trial. The clinical drug trial, led by the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center at Massachusetts General …
June 2020 Events eNews
Upholding Family Values and Traditions For Rosa Elizondo and her teammates, participating in our Strike Out ALS 5k and 1 Mile Run, Walk & Roll allows them to race towards a cure in loving memory of Rosa’s uncle, Alfonso, who …
June 2020 Foundation eNews
Upper Motor Neuron Degeneration Pinpointed In a recent study published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, researchers at our Les Turner ALS Center at Northwestern Medicine and the University of Belgrade have discovered the electrophysiological mechanism behind upper motor neuron disease, which …
May 2020 Events eNews
Celebrating Our Heroic Nurses Nurses are heroes, plain and simple. And those of us in the ALS community know that nurses have always been essential. Despite this crisis, the amazing nurses at our Lois Insolia ALS Clinic at the Les …
May 2020 Foundation eNews
Be a Giver for #GivingTuesdayNow Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a new global day of giving as an emergency response to the unprecedented impact of COVID-19. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we paused all in-person Support Service Team visits and …
