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!
100 procent av alla gåvor till Project Mine går direkt till kartläggning och analys av DNA-profiler.
The Hadassah ALS clinic at Hadassah University Hospital – one of only 2 ALS clinics in Israel – serves as a major clinical and research hub for ALS. Extensive clinical data is routinely collected, in database format, providing a valuable resource facilitating epidemiological and genetic research. The centre was the setting of a major phase I/II stem-cell therapy trial and is currently involved in a number of epidemiological, genetic, and biomarker-based studies.
Prize4Life was founded in 2007 by Avichai Kremer, who was diagnosed with ALS while an MBA student at Harvard, and a group of his friends, with the goal of accelerating the development of treatmentsand a cure for ALS using powerful incentives. Avichai is the recipient of the Rand award from the American ALS Association and the Prime Minister award for innovation and entrepreneurship in a non-profit organization. Prize4Life is now managed by Shay Rishoni, diagnosed with ALS three years ago. Shay Rishoni, MBA, is a military Colonel (res.), a pilot, a senior executive for many years, a triathlete, and an Iron Man.
To successfully accelerate the development of ALS treatments, Prize4Life uses the unique prize model. The prize model is a highly effective way to incentivize research, as well as draw new minds from various disciplines to tackle the problems facing ALS research. Beyond Prizes, Prize4Lfie also has innovative infrastructure programs. Prize4Life’s programs already have yielded key results setting the stage for significant progress in the fight against ALS.
For questions regarding Project MinE in Israel, please email to office@prize4life.org
Dr. Marc Gotkine received his medical degree in King’s College London before completing a residency in Neurology at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, where he now works as a senior neurologist. He established the multidisciplinary Hadassah ALS clinic in 2008, which serves as a clinical and research centre for ALS.
Neta Zach has been with Prize4Life since 2011. She is managing the organization programmatic portfolio, which includes the PRO-ACT database, the ALS prediction prize, the ALS forum and more. Before joining Prize4Life, Dr. Zach was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania in the biology of behaviour program. Prior to that she completed a post doctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University under a Fulbright Scholarship. Her PhD is from Hebrew University in computational neuroscience and she also holds an MPA from the university of Pennsylvania.
In Israel fundraising for Project MinE is led by Prize4Life Israel.
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