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Ice Bucket $$ poured into Cytokinetics

 
• By Lisa LaMotta

A year after the Ice Bucket Challenge swept across the nation, bringing in millions of dollars to support research for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the ALS Association is putting the first of that cash toward clinical trials.

On 14 July, Cytokinetics announced that it is initiating a Phase III clinical trial in patients with ALS using a $1.5m grant to fund biomarker research connected with the trial

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