Month: August 2025

ALS Advocacy: What’s Happening and What’s Next

August 28, 2025 Comments Off on ALS Advocacy: What’s Happening and What’s Next

Here’s what’s happening in Washington, D.C., and how you can help safeguard ALS programs and research. Updates  Earlier this summer, the President signed H.R. 1 — the “One Big Beautiful…

ALS Network Donor Appreciation and Impact Message

August 25, 2025 Comments Off on ALS Network Donor Appreciation and Impact Message

Dear Friends, I am grateful for your steadfast support of the ALS Network and invite you to read our new Impact Report. We are excited to share how your partnership powers our mission-critical…

Target ALS: Sheri Strahl on Reimagining the ALS Movement: Urgency, Equity, and the Power of Collaboration

August 25, 2025 Comments Off on Target ALS: Sheri Strahl on Reimagining the ALS Movement: Urgency, Equity, and the Power of Collaboration

​​When Sheri Strahl became the first President and CEO of the newly named ALS Network in 2024, she stepped into a role already brimming with urgency, and opportunity. Armed with dual public…

NBC Bay Area: Ride, Walk & Roll to Cure ALS Returns to Napa Valley – New Venue for 2025!

August 25, 2025 Comments Off on NBC Bay Area: Ride, Walk & Roll to Cure ALS Returns to Napa Valley – New Venue for 2025!

NBC Bay Area is proud to support the ALS community as the 21st Annual Napa Valley Ride, Walk & Roll to Cure ALS returns on Saturday, September 27, 2025 — this time at its exciting…

H.R.1 Health Changes: What They Mean for ALS Care

August 21, 2025 Comments Off on H.R.1 Health Changes: What They Mean for ALS Care

On July 4, 2025, the budget reconciliation bill, H.R.1, was signed into law. The legislation includes changes to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), putting at risk the…

ALS News Today: Research Sheds New Light on ALS Gene Mutation

August 21, 2025 Comments Off on ALS News Today: Research Sheds New Light on ALS Gene Mutation

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine said they’ve solved a longstanding mystery of how mutations in the C9ORF72 gene, a common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), may lead to toxic proteins. The findings…

ALS NETWORK PARTNERS WITH TARGET ALS TO ACCELERATE GLOBAL ALS RESEARCH EFFORTS

August 21, 2025 Comments Off on ALS NETWORK PARTNERS WITH TARGET ALS TO ACCELERATE GLOBAL ALS RESEARCH EFFORTS

Research seeks to advance discovery and development of treatments for ALS 8/21/25 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOS ANGELES – The ALS Network, formerly ALS Golden West, has partnered with Target…

ALS News Today: Wearable Robot Gives ALS Patients a Hand

August 21, 2025 Comments Off on ALS News Today: Wearable Robot Gives ALS Patients a Hand

A wearable robot that detects small arm motions and helps support the shoulder can make it easier for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients to pick up and carry things, a study showed.…

Research Funding Freeze Impacts UCLA

August 12, 2025 Comments Off on Research Funding Freeze Impacts UCLA

The ALS Network is driven by passion — for people, for progress, and for a future without ALS. We partner with world-class researchers, clinicians, and institutions across California and Hawaii…

Columbia: Will Making Neurons Young Again Stop ALS?

August 12, 2025 Comments Off on Columbia: Will Making Neurons Young Again Stop ALS?

In the beginning, not even Hynek Wichterle’s postdoc thought his idea to slow the progression of ALS had a chance. “When Hynek proposed this, I thought it would never work…