Founded by Aryav Das and Samarth Dunakhe
We're halfway to $50,000 for ALS research.
A $25,000 research grant got us here. We started ALS Forward to raise the other $25,000, with every online gift made directly through ALS Therapy Development Institute.
Human motor neurons / The Francis Crick Institute and Image Data Resource
The $50,000 goal
Halfway.
$25,000
raised
$25,000
still to raise
We are also looking for grant opportunities, sponsors, and school or community fundraising partners.
Send us a leadFrom Aryav + Samarth
We wanted the project to keep moving after the science fair.
We're Aryav and Samarth. ALS Forward began after a four-person student research project on PT150 won first place in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Regeneron ISEF 2025.
The project later received a $25,000 research grant. We set a $50,000 goal because we wanted that progress to keep going, and we're raising the remaining $25,000 through ALS TDI.
ALS Forward is the two of us. The research team also included Arnav Sharma and Pranav Kulkarni.
Where your gift goes
Straight to ALS TDI.
ALS TDI handles the payment and sends the receipt. ALS Forward never sees your card information or holds the donation.
The research
The paper describes the team's computational study of PT150 in ALS. The manuscript, author list, and revision history are available online.
Samarth Dunakhe, Arnav Sharma, Aryav Das, and Pranav Kulkarni
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