Participating Researchers

The ALS Therapy Alliance’s partners have been pivotal in providing additional research and insight into potential treatments for ALS and other related diseases.

Our innovative initiatives unite ALS researchers from all over the world to take advantage of new technologies and concepts. The Alliance includes researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the University of Massachusetts.

Funding from the ATA has also benefited research projects and investigators from China, Germany, Britain, Turkey, Chile, India, Mexico, Australia, Israel and Belgium.

The following investigators have received funding from the ALS Therapy Alliance:

Ammar Al-Chalabi, MB, Ch.B., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.
MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research
Kings College Medical Center
London, England

Pat Andres
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Mark Bellingham, PhD
School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

Wendy Broom, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Daryl A. Bosco, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA

Robert H. Brown, Jr., D.Phil., M.D.
Department of Neurology
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Martha Constantine-Paton, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
McGovern Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, MA, USA

Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc.
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Allitia DeBernardo, M.D.
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Robert J. Ferrante, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Department of Neurology
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA

Jonathan Glass, M.D.
Emory ALS Center
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA

Jonathan Haines, Ph.D.
Center for Human Genetic Research
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Lawrence J. Hayward, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
UMass Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA

Xi Jing, M.D.
Department of Neurology
Sichuan University West China Hospital
Sichuan Province, China

John Landers, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Massachusets Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA

Gerardo Morfini, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Atchayaram Nalini, M.B.B.S., D.M.
Department of Neurology
National Inst of Mental Health and Neurosciences
Bangalore, India

Stefan Niemann, M.D.
MD Epigenomics AG
Berlin, Germany

Piera Pasinelli, Ph.D.
Farber Institute for Neurosciences
Frances & Joseph Weinberg Unit
Thomas Jefferson Medical School
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Margaret Pericak Vance, Ph.D.
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA

Shaun Purcell, Ph.D.
Center for Human Genetic Research
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Wim Robberecht, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Idelfonso Rodriquez-Leva, M.D.
Dept. Neurology Service
Dept. Internal Medicine
Colonia Universitaria
St Luis-Potosi, Mexico

Teepu Siddique, M.D., F.A.A.N.
Departments of Neurology,
Clinical Neuroscience,
Cell and Molecular Biology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Ashutosh Tiwari, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
UMass Medical School
Worcester, MA, USA

Seth Townsend, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemical Engineering
Division of Biomedical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

Davide Trotti, Ph.D.
Farber Institute for Neurosciences
Frances & Joseph Weinberg Unit for ALS Research
Thomas Jefferson Medical School
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Brigitte Van Zundert, Ph.D.
Departamento de Fisiopathologia
Universidad de Concepcion
Casilla, Chile

The ALS Therapy Alliance has also co-sponsored projects with Project A.L.S., The Angel Fund, the ALS Association and The Northeast ALS Consortium.