Article: Prize4Life Celebrates One Year Anniversary of $1 Million ALS Biomarker Challenge.

Nonprofit Using Incentives to Stimulate Research toward a Cure

BOSTON -- Prize4Life, a nonprofit organization founded to accelerate research in Lou Gehrig's disease, is celebrating the one year anniversary of the release of its $1 million ALS biomarker challenge by launching a new outreach effort at the Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting. Prize4Life has already awarded five $15,000 prizes for the best ideas submitted in approaches to ALS biomarker discovery. Anyone can submit a solution for the $1 million ALS biomarker challenge before the November 6th, 2008 deadline.

On success to date, Prize4Life CEO and ALS sufferer Avi Kremer remarked, ...

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