Student-founded · Funding ALS research
Moving ALS
research
forward.
A $25,000 research grant got us halfway. We started ALS Forward to raise the other $25,000, every gift going straight through the ALS Therapy Development Institute.
Where the $50,000 goal stands
Grant & sponsor leads →$25,000
raised so far
$25,000
left to raise
50%
of the goal
From the founders
We wanted the project to keep moving after the science fair, so we built ALS Forward.
We’re Aryav and Samarth. Our student research on PT150 won first place in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron ISEF 2025, and later earned a $25,000 grant.
We set a $50,000 goal to keep that work going, and we’re raising the rest through ALS TDI.
Where your gift goes
Every dollar goes straight to ALS TDI. They take the payment and send the receipt. We never touch your card.
The research
Two ALS papers.
A computational study of PT150 (on bioRxiv), and a 3-gene panel for ALS dementia risk that earned a Conference Spotlight at the IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics.