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Press Releases:
Packard Center Welcomes Its First Dedicated Science Director - July 30, 3008
William H. Adams Foundation Pumps New Energy, Funds into Search for ALS Cure - May 6, 2008
Exciting New Human ALS Trial: Lithium and Riluzole - February 7, 2008
Saer and O’Neill Named Packard Center Board Co-Chairs - June 28, 2007
Early News From First Large Search for Sporadic ALS Genes - February 20, 2007
Human Stem Cell Transplants Mature Into Neurons and Make Contacts in Rat Spinal Cord - February 14, 2007
First International Gene Screen for Typical ALS is On Track - November 29, 2006

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig's Disease in Rats - October 15, 2006

New Neurons Take Baby Steps in the Adult Brain - December 22, 2005
Saer Joins Board of Packard Center for ALS Research - November 17, 2005
Hippodrome and TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Partner with Packard Center to Raise Awareness About ALS - November 9, 2005

Media Advisory: Fred Funk and More - October 14, 2005

NYC Concours d'Elegance To Benefit Packard Center - August 29, 2005
Kornfeld Foundation Pledges $450,000 to Packard Center - July 12, 2005
Four Leading Brain Philanthropies Announce Pioneering Collaboration - April 19, 2005
Center Scientist Alex Kolodkin Named Hughes Investigator - March 24, 2005
Some Brain Cells "Change Channels" to Fine-Tune the Message - March 23, 2005
ALS Center at Emory University announces new study: Clinical Research on Familial ALS - February 24, 2005
Antibiotics Protect Nerves in Mice by Turning on Genes - January 5, 2005
Highlights from the 15th Annual International ALS/MND Symposium - December 10, 2004
In memoriam: Toni M. Diamond - November 19, 2004
Results of the Celebrex clinical trial in ALS - October 25, 2004
CAMR press release: Statement on Death of Stem Cell Advocate Christopher Reeve - October 11, 2004
Crawford, Lakatta, and Callahan Join Packard Center Board - September 28, 2004
CAMR press release: Stem Cell Supporters Plan Voter Education Effort - August 7, 2004
Statement from Johns Hopkins Medicine - July 1, 2004
Students Raise Over $30,000 for ALS Research - June 30, 2004
In memoriam: Laurie Smullin Russell - June 16, 2004
Packard Center scientist Richard Huganir elected to the National Academy of Sciences - April 20, 2004
In memoriam: Jenifer Estess - December 17, 2003
New Study Gives Hope for Nerve Regeneration - December 8, 2003
Don Hutchinson Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- November 4, 2003
The Neighborhood Matters: Packard Scientists Show Cell Environment's Important in ALS - October 2, 2003
Gene Therapy Delays Death in Mouse with Symptoms of Lou Gehrig's Disease - August 8, 2003
Tom Marcus Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- August 6, 2003
PGA Champion Tom Watson to Host Bob Packard Cup
- August 1, 2003
Help Track Down Genes Associated With ALS
- June 10, 2003
Toni Diamond, Founder of Wings Over Wall Street, Awarded the Trustees Award by the ALS March of Faces - May 7, 2003
In memoriam: Michael Patrick Beier - May 1, 2003
Consortium Undertakes Collaborative Initiative to Screen FDA-approved Compounds for Treatment of ALS in Mice - April 16, 2003
Shelley M. Simmons Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- December 19, 2002
Andrea T. Evers Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- December 19, 2002
Jean B. Angell Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- November 21, 2002
Robert C. Basten Joins Board of Governors, The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- November 18, 2002
Center for ALS Research at Hopkins Named
for Robert Packard
- July 11, 2002
Dyan G. Triffo Joins Center for ALS Research Board of Governors - May 20, 2002
Michael P. Beier Joins Center for ALS Research Board of Governors - May 13, 2002
Stephen A. Wakefield Joins Center for ALS Research Board of Governors - December 10, 2001
John T. Packard Joins Center for ALS Research Board of Governors - December 10, 2001
Statement from John D. Gearhart, Ph.D., in Response to President Bush's Stem Cell Decision - August 10, 2001
Stem Cells Graft In Spinal Cord, Restore Movement In Paralyzed Mice - November 5, 2000
Kornfeld, Robert Packard Foundations Fund Innovative Center For ALS Research At Johns Hopkins - March 20, 2000

Recent news from the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research:
Packard Center Welcomes Its First Dedicated Science Director - July 30, 3008
In ALS, It’s Not the Number of Ailing Astrocytes That Counts - June 12, 2008
Leaky Blood Vessels Add To ALS Damage, Could Offer New Repair Site - June 10, 2008
William H. Adams Foundation Pumps New Energy, Funds into Search for ALS Cure - May 6, 2008
Tell-Tale Protein Clumping in ALS is Less Complex Than Expected - April 10, 2008

ALS Mouse Study Highlights Astrocytes' Strong Potential as Therapy Target - February 7, 2008

Exciting New Human ALS Trial: Lithium and Riluzole - February 7, 2008
ALS Treatment: A Matter of Cleaning House? - December 19, 2007

New Study Brings What Goes Wrong in Inherited ALS into Focus - September 18, 2007

New ALS Protein Could Be a Keystone - August 9, 2007
Muscles More Than Passive Victims in ALS, Study Suggests - June 29, 2007
Saer and O’Neill Named Packard Center Board Co-Chairs - June 28, 2007

Self-Attack? Self-Repair? First Real Look at Gene Activity in ALS Models Sparks Thirst for Answers - May 3, 2007

Model of Accelerated Familial ALS Sheds Light on Disease Process - April 6, 2007
Early News From First Large Search for Sporadic ALS Genes - February 20, 2007
Human Stem Cell Transplants Mature Into Neurons and Make Contacts in Rat Spinal Cord - February 14, 2007




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