Sentences with phrase «association ice bucket challenge»
Gladstone investigator Dr. Steven Finkbeiner is part of a consortium receiving funding from the ALS Association Ice Bucket Challenge donations, investigating new potential treatments for ALS.
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A look at this week's ice bucket challenges to raise awareness and donations for the ALS Association.
The link between the ice bucket challenge and ALS endured, and shivering do - gooders have raised $ 15.6 million for the ALS Association since July 29, with its Canadian counterpart grossing over $ 200,000 towards a $ 1.5 million goal.
For example, the ALS Association raised over $ 100 million dollars simply by asking people to dump a bucket of ice water on themselves and to «challenge» their friends to do likewise, all for a social cause.
The ALS Association sums up the Ice Bucket Challenge as follows:
A similar pattern is observed for visits to the main ALS Wikipedia page as well as for total funding to the ALS Association, which, despite a relaunch of the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2015, fell back to its pre-campaign levels.
«The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge enabled The ALS Association to invest in Project MinE's work to create large biorepositories of ALS biosamples that are designed to allow exactly this kind of research and to produce exactly this kind of result.»
Within days, the aptly named «ice bucket challenge» went viral and in two short months it raised more than $ 105 million in funds for the ALS Association.