AFTD and The ALS Association are launching a funding opportunity to support collaborative development of digital assessment tools across two overlapping neurodegenerative disorders: frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Leveraging a $500,000 ALS Association Partnership Grant, the Digital Assessment Tools for FTD and ALS Awards will provide $750,000, distributed across two to four grants, to aid the development of tools that use smartphones, wearable trackers, or other devices to remotely gather data on a person’s symptoms or ability to function. If correctly designed and applied, digital assessment tools have the potential to expand research into, and strengthen care for, ALS and FTD.

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