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Directors & Staff Funding Initiatives Individual Funds Annual Report

Individual Funds

The ALS Hope Foundation is proud to support individual funds that honor those whose lives have been impacted by ALS. To learn more about individual funds, please contact the ALS Hope Foundation office.

Sharon Balick Fund

• Pennsylvania ALS Research Consortium
• National ALS Research Group on Genetic Modifiers
• Translational Research Program (Inflammation in ALS)
• Assistive Technology Program of the Independent Living Initiative

Tom Corrigan

• ALS Research Foundation Basic Research Clinical Research

Harold B. Furman Memorial Research Fund

• Basic Research

Doris Gewertz "Breath of Hope" Fund

• The Work of Breathing
• Clinical Research

Carol Fox Kochenbach Research Fund

• Genetic and Gender Modifiers of ALS in the mouse model of ALS
• Clinical research at the MDA/ALS Center of Hope

Bo LeBoutillier Research Fellowship

• Post-graduate Research Fellowships in ALS

Kevin O'Donnell Independent Living Initiative

• Assistive Technology development
• Adapted hospital rooms for people with ALS

Steven & Gwenn Rubin Research Fund

• National ALS Research Group on Genetic Modifiers

Milton Sobel Fund

• Basic Research

Janet Steen Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowships

• Undergraduate and Graduate Student Summer Fellowships