Identifying how exposures to pesticides, metals, air pollution, or other industrial and consumer chemicals increase ALS risk and progression
Applying advanced computational tools to understand how genetics, the immune system, and cell metabolism interact with environmental exposures in persons with ALS, the goal being to make ALS a preventable disease
Examining the benefits of repurposing currently approved anti-inflammatory drugs to treat ALS
Increasing patient and control participation in national drug trials at the Pranger ALS Clinic
Establishing diet recommendations (increase good & lessen harmful fats) to prevent neuropathy
Initiating a clinical trial to determine if surgical weight loss and/or exercise can prevent nerve
damage and improve cognitive skills of patients with diabetes
Study why children and teenagers with obesity, prediabetes, and diabetes develop nerve damage
Repurposing an available anti-inflammatory drug for treating diabetic neuropathy
Understanding how gut health affects nerve function in the brain and peripheral nerves
Creating a multidisciplinary Long COVID-19 Clinic to care for patients suffering from chronic complications and follow them through their recovery to better understand the disease and its long-term effects
Developing an innovative treatment for dangerously high blood sugar surges caused by COVID-19 in patients with diabetes
Initiating a clinical trialto identify inflammatory biomarkers that help predict how COVID-19 will affect patients with diabetes
Beginning a clinical trial to assess COVID-19’s long-term and permanent damage to brain, heart, and kidney
