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75 episodes
since Sept. 4, 2019
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Learn more about Chris and support his fundraiser on GoFundMe.com Christopher Murarik has spent most of his life serving his community. When he was younger, he was active in 4-H, worked as a special education aide, and coached youth swimming. Later, he went on to a career in the military and law e…

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Johnny Rodriguez always asked a lot of his body. He played multiple sports in high school and college and then went on to a seven-year career in professional lacrosse—a lifestyle that kept him in elite physical condition. In 2023, at the age of 35, he was working as a high school lacrosse coa…
Nobody knows ALS better than people living with the disease. Therefore, it’s crucial for scientists to utilize the perspectives of people with lived experience in their research. Earlier this year, ALS TDI joined with Her ALS Story—a group of women diagnosed with ALS before the ag…
Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, aim to enable people to control various adaptive devices directly with their thoughts. There are many BCI devices currently in various stages of development, with the potential to help people with ALS and similar conditions across many different activities of dai…
Today on Endpoints, Dr. Danielle Boyce joins us to explore how data science is transforming our understanding of ALS and why the ALS Research Collaborative (ARC) Study presents an exciting opportunity for research. As ALS TDI’s Principal Investigator for Real-World Evidence, D…
25 years ago, Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan began filming a documentary about a new, one-year-old organization and the family that founded it. That organization was called the ALS Therapy Development Foundation, and its mission was to find treatments for ALS. It was started by Jamie Heywood, whos…
In February 2024, ALS TDI launched the ALS Trial Navigator, a set of online tools designed to help people with ALS find clinical trials. Users can fill out a questionnaire to be matched with trials that meet their criteria, search a global database of studies, and even find sites close to them on a…
Chris Ritter, the co-owner of Oakland United Beerworks, never thought he’d make a profession out of brewing. He had always loved beer but was a lawyer by training. Brewing was his son Andrew’s great passion. From a young age, Andrew always knew he wanted to make beer. After college, he got into the…
We need more – likely many more – effective treatments to end ALS. Progress in ALS research has been too slow for too long but, in 2024, we’re witnessing significant advances and a new pace of progress. The past few years have see more treatments for ALS in clinical trials than ever before. Still, …
In 1999, Stephen Heywood, who was 29 years old at the time, was diagnosed with ALS. His family was devastated when they learned that there were no treatments that could slow or stop his disease. His brother Jamie decided that he had to do something about it, founding the organization that would eve…
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