Last year, thousands of Canadians had buckets of ice water dumped over their heads to raise money for research into ALS. We finally have the totals from the Ice Bucket Challenge. It raised $17 million dollars nationwide. The ALS Society of Canada says $15 million of that sum will go to fund 34 research projects across Canada.
Here is how the money will be spent:
- Researchers at the University of Manitoba will be getting $1.6 million so that a research team can spend the next five years investigating a cure for ALS.
- Laval University gets $2.48 million to study inflammation.
- The University of Alberta gets $2.94 million to look at earlier detection using high-powered MRI techniques.
- the University of Toronto will use $1.44 million to understand the impact of toxic proteins on motor neurons and the University of Montreal will spend $1.69 million to study how stress granules form abnormally in ALS patients.
