Optogenetically-Controlled Restoration of Muscle Function in ALS to control breathing in ALS patients without the need for mechanical ventilation This avant-guarde project is managed through a collaborative work between University College London, Dr Barney Bryson in the team of...
Identification of pathways of degeneration and protection in ALS using oculomotor neuron resistance as a tool. Eva Hedlund, associate professor in the department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Stefania Corti associate professor in the Neurology unit...
Following the project selected in 2009 by the Thierry Latran Foundation : Study of the pathological neuro-immune interactions between the macrophages/microglial cells and the affected motor neurons in animal models of ALS ( PI Séverine Boillée, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC...
Results making a significant contribution to understand the mechanisms of ALS neurodegeneration, and may providing insights to identify new targets for possible therapeutic manipulations Following the project selected in 2011 by the Thierry Latran Foundation : What is the...
Discovery of a possible explanation of differences in ALS progression in men in a project selected and financed by the Thierry Latran Foundation: Metabolic factor PGC-1a modifies course of ALS in men (but not in women) Why does physicist...
Frank Hirth and his team, King’s College of London is the recepient of a grant for a project started in 2011 whose objective is to understand the mechanisms leading to the accumulation of the protein TDP43. The first results...
Major results obtained with a project granted by Fondation Thierry Latran have just been published in Nature Medicine The project presented by Pr Philip Van Damme, neurology department head by Pr Wim Robberecht, Leuven University, Vesalius research center, Belgium was...