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Mission

Stateme

ntOur mission is to accelerate the discovery of

treatments and a cure for ALS by using powerful incentives to attract new people and drive

innovation

March

Dr. Roger D. Kornberg, Nobel Laureate, joined

Prize4Life’s Scientific Advisory

Board

JuneWe hosted our third annual A Prize4Life Gala at

The Plaza Hotel on June 6th to honor those committed to finding a cure for ALS

We awarded the Prize4Life Pioneer Award for Clinical Research to Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc. and the Prize4Life

Courage Award to Mackenzie Dutton

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Gala

(Left to right: Merit Cudkowicz, Avi Kremer,, Mackenzie Dutton, and Zachary Dutton)

With the generosity of 240 guests, we raised $320,000, our most successful gala to dateA

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Gala

We proudly announced the re-launch of the $1M ALS Treatment Prize4Life to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of treatments for ALS

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Gala

A Priz

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Gala

A Priz

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Gala

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Gala

The DREAM-Phil Bowen ALS Prediction Prize4Life Challenge (ALS Prediction Prize) was announced on

July 10th

The goal of the challenge was to predict the progression of an ALS patient’s disease via data mining

July

The ALS Prediction Prize closed on October 15th

• 1,073 solvers registered to participate

• 37 submissions were received

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The winners of the ALS Prediction Prize were announced on November 15th

Due to the range and quality of solutions

submitted, we awarded two first-place teams with a prize of $20,000 each and a second-

place prize of $10,000

 

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Congratulations to our first-place teams:• Lester Mackey, Ph.D. and Lilly Fang, J.D. • Sentrana’s team of Liuxia Wang, Ph.D. and Guang Li

And to our second-place winner, Torsten Hothorn, Ph.D. 

(Left to Right: Neta Zach, Li, Wang, Fang, Mackey, and Melanie Leitner)

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We hosted our fourth annual 5K4Life Road Race on November 4th

5K4Life

Road RaceOver 540 runners,

walkers, and participants joined us on race day to

help raise over $77,000, our

most successful 5K race to date

5K4Life

Road Race

Decem

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The Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials Database (PRO-ACT) was launched on December 5th

PRO-ACT • Merges data from existing publicly and privately

conducted ALS clinical trials• Provides anyone interested in moving forward ALS

research with a powerful open-access tool built to provide the power of “Big Data”

From All

of Us

To All of

You

This holiday season, Prize4Life would like to thank our supporters and

volunteers for their passion, energy, and tireless efforts to increase ALS

awareness