2012 Highlights from Prize4Life
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Happy
Holiday
s from
Prize4Li
fe
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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
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March
Dr. Roger D. Kornberg, Nobel Laureate, joined
Prize4Life’s Scientific Advisory
Board
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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
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We awarded the Prize4Life Pioneer Award for Clinical Research to Merit Cudkowicz, M.D., M.Sc. and the Prize4Life
Courage Award to Mackenzie Dutton
A Priz
e4Life
Gala
(Left to right: Merit Cudkowicz, Avi Kremer,, Mackenzie Dutton, and Zachary Dutton)
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With the generosity of 240 guests, we raised $320,000, our most successful gala to dateA
Prize4Lif
e
Gala
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We proudly announced the re-launch of the $1M ALS Treatment Prize4Life to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of treatments for ALS
A Priz
e4Life
Gala
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A Priz
e4Life
Gala
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A Priz
e4Life
Gala
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A Priz
e4Life
Gala
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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
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The ALS Prediction Prize closed on October 15th
• 1,073 solvers registered to participate
• 37 submissions were received
Octobe
r
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Novem
ber
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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Novem
ber
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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Novem
ber
We hosted our fourth annual 5K4Life Road Race on November 4th
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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
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5K4Life
Road Race
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Decem
ber
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”
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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