Prize4Life Marks One-Year Anniversary of Avi Kremer ALS Treat...(educational materials to assure that pro...),Health

Date:10/9/2009

educational materials to assure that protocols are properly designed and study outcomes are useful for preclinical drug testing in the ALS SOD1 mouse model. This is part of the organization's ongoing commitment to supporting researchers with useful tools and infrastructure.

The Avi Kremer ALS Treatment Prize has a rolling deadline. If no winning solutions are submitted, the prize will be closed to further submissions in October 2010. Interested researchers can learn more about the prize and register to compete at www.prize4life.org.

About Prize4Life

Prize4Life was founded by a group of Harvard Business School students when one of them, Avi Kremer, was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 29. Prize4Life works to accelerate the discovery of a treatment and a cure for ALS by using powerful incentives to attract new people and ideas, and to leverage existing efforts and expertise in the ALS field. Among other program initiatives, the organization currently administers the ALS Biomarker Prize Challenge, the Avi Kremer ALS Treatment Prize, and the ALS Forum (www.researchals.org).

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