October 2021 News

October 23, 2021

Dr. Stephen Goutman featured on WWJ Newsradio 950

Deanna Lites speaks to Dr. Goutman about why it's important to look at environmental factors in ALS, which will be part of the new ALS medical moonshot thanks to a $3.6 million grant from the NIH.

logo for One Detroit on Detroit Public Television
October 18, 2021

PBS/Detroit Public Television Features Dr. Eva Feldman on Long COVID

"We’ve had multi-millions of cases of COVID in this country. I mean let’s do the math, when 20 percent of those individuals – we’re talking about millions of individuals who have long COVID, those individuals are really impaired." Dr. Eva Feldman speaks to One Detroit's Bill Kubota on Detroit Public Television about Long COVID.

NIH Director's Transformative Research Award logo
October 5, 2021

Announcing NIH Director's Transformative Research Award

A multidisciplinary group of University of Michigan researchers will investigate environmental exposures, chosen as one of the first projects in a new National Institutes of Health amyotrophic lateral sclerosis initiative.

October 1, 2021

New CDC Grant to Study Air Pollution & ALS

A CDC-funded multidisciplinary effort at U-M will investigate air pollution as a major and modifiable risk factor for ALS and seek to identify therapy targets.