{"id":1914,"date":"2016-10-11T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2016-10-11T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T01:11:23","slug":"12th-annual-leadership-summit-focuses-on-precision-medicine-potential-in-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/other-news\/12th-annual-leadership-summit-focuses-on-precision-medicine-potential-in-als\/","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Leadership Summit Focuses on Precision Medicine Potential in ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALS-TDI-300x95.png\" alt=\"ALS Therapy Development Institute\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALS-TDI-300x95.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALS-TDI-200x63.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALS-TDI-800x253.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALS-TDI.png 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>ALS Therapy Development Institute<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAMBRIDGE, MA<\/strong> \u2013 The ALS Therapy Development Institute announced the schedule of its 12th Annual Leadership Summit, to be held October 28, 2016 at MassBio in Cambridge, MA. The event is free and open to the public and will feature in-depth looks at the Institute\u2019s lead candidate program, AT-1501, a panel discussion with participants in its Precision Medicine Program and a community-nominated presentation of Leadership Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a collective field, we are moving faster than ever before to advance potential treatments for ALS and accelerate clinical trials. Today, there is a greater awareness of the disease than there has been in its history. This year\u2019s Summit will be very different from those in the past as a result of this momentum.\u201d said Steve Perrin, Ph.D., CEO and CSO of the ALS Therapy Development Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The Leadership Summit is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.als.net\/summit\" target=\"_blank\">www.als.net\/summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ALS Therapy Development Institute is actively enrolling participants in the Precision Medicine Program, a program that has resulted in the world\u2019s largest, patient-linked database integrating ALS genetics, voice recordings, lifestyle, demographics and accelerometer data. Simultaneously, the Institute also creates induced pluripotent (iPS) cell lines from Program participant samples which are used in crucial phenotypic screening and drug discovery efforts in support of its mission to find effective treatments for ALS.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be discussed at length at the Leadership Summit including perspectives from three research study participants: Matt Bellina (Lt. Cmdr., USN Ret), Jos\u00e9 Cofi\u00f1o and Beth Hebron.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Institute will present its annual Leadership Awards. Nominations are made by the ALS community via Facebook and other means. This year\u2019s recipients are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gosnell Family of Hanover, Massachusetts \u2013 Fran Delany Challenge &#038; Respect Award;<\/li>\n<li>Ernest (Rusty) Perry of Dallas, Texas \u2013 Mary Lou Krauseneck Courage &#038; Love Award;<\/li>\n<li>Smith\/Hanses Family of Yakima, Washington \u2013 Stephen Milne Adventurous Spirit Award;<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Lytle-Peet of Raleigh, North Carolina \u2013 Stephen Heywood Patients Today Award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last year\u2019s recipients were Matt Bellina, Sarah Coglianese, Bobby Forster, Beth Hebron, Jay Smith, and Maureen Ramirez (Team Godfather).<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Leadership Summit and the Leadership Awards can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.als.net\/summit\" target=\"_blank\">www.als.net\/summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAMBRIDGE, MA<\/strong> \u2013 The ALS Therapy Development Institute announced the schedule of its 12th Annual Leadership Summit, to be held October 28, 2016 at MassBio in Cambridge, MA. The event is free and open to the public and will feature in-depth looks at the Institute\u2019s lead candidate program, AT-1501, a panel discussion with participants in its Precision Medicine Program and a community-nominated presentation of Leadership Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}