Myriam Gagné was not expecting to work on ALS research. But the first time she saw Dr. Christine Vande Velde’s lab at l’Université de Montréal, it was “love at first sight.” Studying ALS would allow her to combine basic cell biology, neurosciences and biochemistry, her main academic areas of interest. She joined the lab in […]
Is an experimental drug that can prevent abnormal protein behaviour in ALS already out there?
When Marc Shenouda first learned about ALS as an undergraduate science student, he found himself asking many questions: Why is the average life expectancy only two to five years after diagnosis? Why is there is no cure yet? How can we find better treatments, ones that could extend life by more than a few months? […]