HSCI Executive Committee member Lee Rubin is one of seven scientists selected by biotech leader Biogen Idec to identify and develop new approaches for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Rubin and the other six scientists at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Rockefeller will form a consortium to bring to bear their complementary research interests, talents, and areas of expertise on the hitherto untreatable and fatal neurodegenerative disease.
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Using a new, stem cell-based, drug-screening technology that could reinvent and greatly reduce the cost of developing pharmaceuticals, researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have found a compound that is more effective in protecting the neurons killed in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) than are two drugs that failed in human clinical trials after large sums were invested in them....