Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Stanford team wins $20K for algorithm aimed at Lou Gehrig's disease drug trials

Lester Mackey.
A team from Stanford University won $20,000 for its work with algorithms that could reduce the number of Lou Gehrig’s Disease patients needed in clinical trials.Lester Mackey, a postdoctoral candidate in mathematics and statistics at Stanford, and Lilly Fang, a recent juris doctor and master’s degree recipient, won the award from Prize4Life, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit organization set up to accelerate the discovery of treatments and a cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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