Boston Scientist Wins $1 Million Als Prize

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LOS ANGELES - A Boston researcher will receive a $1 million prize from the Prize4Life foundation's ALS Biomarker Challenge, an effort to develop new ways to monitor the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to make it easier to test potential drugs for the disease.

The prize is believed to be the biggest-ever challenge award related to a medical condition, but Prize4Life estimates it could halve the cost of clinical trials for new ALS drugs. Dr. Seward Rutkove of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will receive the award formally in June.

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Boston Scientist Wins $1 Million Als Prize

ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neuromuscula...

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