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 In an effort to keep this page as up to date and current as possible I will, from time to time, be archiving articles but the articles will still be available by checking the ARCHIVE page.  I have archived the older research items from this page to the ARCHIVES PAGE if there is anything that you wanted to check it can be found there. 

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"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." Kathleen Norris

Department of Neurology Developing New Treatments for ALS

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”         Benjamin Disraeli

Gene Linked to Inherited ALS

“You can learn more from your enemies and competitors, than your friends, they will be among the very first to expose all your flaws and shortcomings.”  Joseph P. Martino

ALSA Research Update

"If you aspire to become a "giant" of industry you first must learn to "grow" from all your past mistakes and failures." Joseph P. Martino

Formaldehyde Phobia

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." Babe Ruth

Microsoft Research funds genome-related computing work

“Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.”                  Peter S. Prescott

Seeking Individuals for Participation in ALS Gene Study

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." Kin Hubbard

I have recently summarized my three decades of research at the University of North Carolina on normal, injured and diseased spinal motor neurons at the following website: 

Lee McIlwain
dlmc@med.unc.edu

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes." Kenneth Hildebrand

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