Ben-Gu­ri­on Uni­ver­si­ty seek­ing part­ner to re­pur­pose old lym­phoma drug to treat ALS

Re­searchers at the Ben-Gu­ri­on Uni­ver­si­ty of the Negev are seek­ing col­lab­o­ra­tors who can help them teach an old lym­phoma drug a new trick- to treat ALS.

Rachel Lichen­stein, a re­searcher at Ben-Gu­ri­on in Is­rael had been study­ing the role of sug­ar mol­e­cules in can­cer when a stu­dent drew her at­ten­tion to a lab in a near­by hos­pi­tal that hap­pened to have 20 tis­sue sam­ples from ALS pa­tients. So Lichen­stein fig­ured she might as well check them out.

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