Join the fight and help us discover the genetic basis of ALS. Start or support a local initiative to raise funds. Project MinE, make it yours!
El 100% de todas las donaciones a Project MinE irán destinadas para el análisis y el mapeo de perfiles de ADN.
The Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Center at the Kantonsspital St.Gallen is the major referral center for ALS patients in Switzerland. The dedicated team provides multidisciplinary holistic care for patients and caregivers and is also engaged in clinical research. Research projects include studies in neurophysiology, genetics, imaging, outcome measures and clinical trials. The center is committed to international collaborations and is therefore participating in Project MinE.
The Swiss ALS Foundation (Schweizerische ALS Stiftung) was founded in 2003 by a young ALS patient Dirk Henauer, who dedicated the last 2 years of his life to the establishment of the foundation. The main goal of the ALS foundation is to foster and support research in ALS. Furthermore the foundation aims to provide support to ALS patients and their relatives. Over the past 10 years the foundation has supported numerous research projects at various academic institutions in Switzerland.
The Neuromuscular Diseases Unit and the Swiss ALS Association are partners in Project MinE. The goal is to analyse 600 DNA samples.
Project MinE research in Switzerland is performed at the Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Center at the Kantonsspital St.Gallen.
Prof. dr. Weber is founder of the ALS clinic in St. Gallen in 2006 and the ALS clinic at the University Hospital Basel and acting chief of all ALS research projects in St. Gallen and Basel.
He is a clinical researcher who has been involved in numerous ALS clinical trials as PI and advisory board member and has published numerous articles on ALS and neuromuscular diseases. The ALS clinic St.Gallen is part of an extensive European network of ALS research participating in several EU-funded projects. Markus is currently a member of the Executive committee of the European network for the cure of ALS (ENCALS).
In Switzerland fundraising for Project MinE is led by the Swiss ALS Foundation.
