CNS Update

Dr. Smith will speak at Cedar-Sinai in Los Angeles on Feb 17 and at the Packard conference in John Hopkins on March 8th.

FDA approves Nuedexta which was discovered at CNS and developed by Avanir pharmaceutical corporation 

Dr Smith to speak at Stanford on Nov 5.

At the California ALS Summit, held in San Francisco June 27-28, Dr Smith gave a talk entitled "The ALS phenotype: lost in translation" and chaired a session dealing with molecular therapy for ALS 

In March Dr Smith gave a series of lectures at UFM(check ufm.com) in Guatemala city and on April 14th will speak at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology

Family and friends of Tom Shey established a fund to support ALS research. Thus far over $6000 has been contributed.

Isis pharmaceutical corporation organized a meeting in Boston in December '09 to launch a Familial ALS trial that utilizes a drug developed with UCSD and CNS. See publications.  

In November '09 Dr Smith spoke at Shanghai University Medical School and the World Congress of Neurology in Bangkok

April 16th, 2009  Dr Smith spoke at the University of California Medical School, Davis. His presentation, entitled Targeted Therapies for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, will be delivered at Grand Rounds sponsored by the Department of Neurology

Dr. Smith will be giving a talk on "Advances in Understanding and Treating ALS" at 5:45 pm on March 17,2008 at the Muscular Dystrophy Association office in San Diego, CA. For directions, please contact Jessica at 858-455-5463.

Dr Licht to head a Gene Therapy Trial with the goal of slowing or reversing nerve damage assoicated with diabetes. The nationwide study is sponsored by Sangamo BioSciences.

UCSD and CNS receive million dollar plus grant to develop a therapy for familial ALS. The award was made by the Muscualr Dystrophy Association. 

Dr Smith recently spoke at the Mount Sinai neuromuscular symposium March 31 in New York and the 2nd International Research Workshop on Frontotemporal Dementia in ALS, June 10-13,2007. In July he will speak at Scripps research institute.

Dr Smith made several presentations and co-chaired a session at the International ALS meeting, Yokahama, Japan Nov 30-Dec 2, 2006.

Dr. Smith and colleague Dr. Donald Cleveland were interviewed about ALS on August 7, 2006 on PBS morning radio show "These Days".
To hear this interview, go to KPBS (80.5 FM) at 9:40am on Monday.

Research conducted at CNS has been published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation and Expert Opinion, in Aug and Dec of 2006 
 

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