Last month the lab published a review on the potential of using stem cells to probe disorders of the central nervous system at the EMBO Journal. You can read the full manuscript here (http://emboj.embopress.org/content/34/11/1456.long) Evangelos and lab members also attended …
Research Updates from Dr. Siddique’s Lab – April 2015
In a recent study published by Cirulli et al (Science, 2015 Feb 19) whole exome sequencing of 2,874 ALS patients confirmed several known ALS genes and identified TBK1 as a novel ALS gene. TBK1 is known to be one of several …
Les Turner ALS Foundation Researchers Find Parkinson’s Disease Gene Targets Brain Motor Neurons
From the lab of Dr. P. Hande Ozdinler, a researcher at the Les Turner ALS Research and Patient Center at Northwestern Medicine, comes a breakthrough in ALS research. Research performed by Javier Jara, Ph.D. and Baris Genc, Ph.D., under the …
Annual ALS Surveillance Meeting – August 13 – 14, Atlanta, GA
Foundation representatives Wendy Abrams, Executive Director, and Shari Diamond, RN, Director of Patient Services, were invited to attend the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Annual Surveillance Meeting to hear the first report on the National ALS Registry …
