Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive illness that causes muscle weakness, wasting and usually death within a few years. There are an estimated 30,000 people in the United States with the disease.

On this blog, we’ve written about how our grantees are progressing toward treatment for ALS, but we wanted to pull the best of those posts into one place. Here are some of the most interesting posts if you want to learn more about ALS and research by CIRM grantees.

1. Webcast of CIRM’s #ALS Google hangout now available 

2. Lawrence Goldstein discusses Alzheimer’s & ALS research, need for more funding

3. Physicist Hawking visits CIRM-funded lab working on ALS therapy 

4. Neural stem cells show signs of treating ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in mice

5. Brain’s mysterious support cells underly some diseases

For a complete list of ALS research we’ve funded, see the ALS fact sheet on our website.

Rina Shaikh-Lekso