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Jaimie Heywood started his own drug research pipeline to try to cure his brother's ALS. That failed, but the effort has inspired a number of other unconventiona
by mtraven 13y ago
Jaimie Heywood started his own drug research pipeline to try to cure his brother's ALS. That failed, but the effort has inspired a number of other unconventional research efforts.
http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_heywood_the_big_idea_my_brother_inspired.html http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_heywood_the_big_idea_my_broth...
- narrator 13y agoMaybe he could get into a clinical trial with NeuralStem Inc's therapy. They seem to be having some good results with treating people with ALS with spinal stem cell injections: http://www.neuralstem.com/cell-therapy-for-als http://www.neuralstem.com/cell-therapy-for-als
- andrewem 13y agoThe research lab that Jamie founded is ALS TDI [1], which has a database of ALS clinical trials [2]. Jamie later co-founded PatientsLikeMe, a web site for sharing medical data which has over 6,000 users who are patients with ALS [3], the first of whom was his brother Stephen [4]. (Full disclosure: I work for PatientsLikeMe.) [1] http://www.als.net/ http://www.als.net/ [2] http://www.als.net/ALS-Research/ALS-Clinical-Trials/ http://www.als.net/ALS-Research/ALS-Clinical-Trials/ [3] https://www.patientslikeme.com/conditions/9-als-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis https://www.patientslikeme.com/conditions/9-als-amyotrophic-... [4] https://www.patientslikeme.com/patients/view/40 https://www.patientslikeme.com/patients/view/40