All Posts: ALS
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Georgetown Co-Leads New NIH-Funded Multi-Institutional ALS Clinical Research Consortium
In an effort to disrupt the ALS clinical research landscape in the U.S., the National Institutes of Health has announced the establishment of a transformative national clinical…
November 3, 2023
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Cancer Drug Prevents Build-up of Toxic Brain Protein
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2013) — Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have used tiny doses of a leukemia drug to halt accumulation of toxic proteins linked to…
December 12, 2013
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Removing Protein “Garbage” in Nerve Cells May Help Control Two Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have new evidence that challenges scientific dogma involving two fatal neurodegenerative diseases —…
December 11, 2013