General ALS Info

What is ALS? - ALSA

Facts About ALS - MDA

What is ALS? (with video) - Project ALS

Crowdsourcing/Prize Info

InnoCentive

X Prize

Potential Funding Sources

Prize4Life (prizes/results-based funding only)

ALS Association

Project ALS

Packard Center for ALS Research (at Johns Hopkins)

International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Muscular Dystrophy Association Venture Philanthropy

Dept. of Defense Congressionally Directed Research Program in ALS

Networking Resource

ResearchGATE (an online collaboration and communication tool for researchers)

Other Research Resources

ALSTDI Animal Study Data The ALS Therapy Development Institute has conducted the largest SOD1 mouse screen of potential therapeutic compounds in the world. This is a link to the results of those screens. There are other interesting research resources on the site as well.

ALSTDI Research Pipeline Dynamic list (updated quarterly) showing the stage of development for various potential therapies currently under investigation at the ALS Therapy Development Institute (sorted by mechanism).

Alzforum The Alzheimer Research Forum main site includes databases of antibodies, animal models, and gene associations for other related neurodegenerative diseases

NEALS The Northeast ALS Consortium is the largest consortium of ALS clinical investigators in the US. NEALS runs both the largest US pooled data collection of ALS clinical trials data as well as a biorepository of ALS patient clinical samples.

WFN-ALS the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases Publishers of the ALS Journal

Clinical Trials Summary lists all ongoing clinical trials around the world