Proje5t for ALS was founded with one focus, to support its mission of improving the lives of people with this neurodegenerative disorder by promoting collaborative, translational research with real potential to help find a cure for ALS.

Proje5t for ALS was founded in 2010, as a non-profit 501 (c) 3, by Rich Ehlers, Joe Fridkin and Misty Fridkin to follow the vision of their friend Bob Willson who was diagnosed with ALS ( amyotrophic lateral scierosis), also known as Lou Gehrigs disease, in September 2007. ALS is a progressive, fatal neuromuscular disease that slowly robs the body of its ability to walk, speak, swallow and breathe it affects roughly one in a 100,000 Americans. Sadly, Bob lost his battle with ALS on May 17, 2010

Willson was driven by the lack of funding devoted to an illness with a near-universal fatality rate.

“You can give up or you can keep going. I have an obligation to teach my kids that when something bad happens to you, you need to be tough and go as long as you can and as hard as you can,” he said. “This disease is solvable. I probably won’t make it to the finish line, but we will win against ALS someday."