Alex Parker and members of his laboratory at the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) have been awarded a three-year $1.6 million grant from the Weston Family Foundation as part of the Brain Health: 2021 -Lifestyle Approaches and Microbiome Contributions program. Thanks to this grant, Alex Parker will be able to study, among other things, the ability of the probiotic L. rhamnosus HA-114 from the company Lallemand Health Solutions, with whom he collaborates, to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This research project will be the subject of a pan-Canadian clinical study conducted on 100 patients and piloted at the CHUM. Dr. Genevieve Matte, director of the ALS clinic at the CHUM, and Martine Tetreault, both researchers at the CRCHUM, stephane Bronner, director of preclinical and clinical research at the Rosell? Institute for the Microbiome and Probiotics, the research and development center of Lallemand Health Solutions based in Montreal, as well as researcher Matthieu Ruiz of the Montreal Heart Institute Research Center are part of this scientific venture.
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