About the Foundation

Mission

The mission of the ALS Hope Foundation is to provide long-term support to 1) basic and clinical research programs leading to a cure, 2) clinical centers of excellence for the care and treatment of patients with ALS, 3) support programs for patients and care-givers that optimize care and promote independence of the patient, and 4) programs that promote patient and physician education about the diagnosis, treatment and caring for the patient with ALS.

The ALS Hope Foundation is working to:

• Establish a team of talented and imaginative scientists who will work cooperatively to accelerate ALS research
• Provide these researchers with stable funding to ensure that ALS research continues uninterrupted
• Provide funding for innovative, groundbreaking research across the country where traditional funding sources are not forthcoming.

Primarily, we fund clinical research and education at the nationally acclaimed MDA/ALS Center of Hope at Drexel University College of Medicine. This clinic has been providing a "multidisciplinary approach" to care for patients with ALS and their families in the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area since 1984. The ALS Hope Foundation is working to ensure that this clinic can continue to offer access to clinical trials of promising therapeutics and maintain its work at the forefront of clinical ALS research.

The ALS Hope Foundation also maintains an excellent team of scientists focused on ALS, operating out of the ALS Basic Research Laboratory at Drexel University College of Medicine. This laboratory relies on its collaborations with other scientists to attack ALS from new and innovative directions.

Last September, we launched the Philadelphia Institute of Neurodegenerative Disorders (PhIND). With your help, we have created a unique research effort that stresses collaboration and interaction between scientists, between academic institutions and with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. We will provide a stable laboratory environment so that talented and imaginative scientists can work non-stop to defeat ALS.