
This partnership will help fund an ever-growing pipeline of preclinical laboratory studies and clinical trials around the world. Projects will build upon the substantial body of encouraging evidence that demonstrates the feasibility, safety and efficacy of focused ultrasound for neurodegenerative disorders. Furthermore, these additional resources will inform the field about the potential of focused ultrasound to halt progression and perhaps even reverse the neurological deterioration and restore function.
The Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Foundation Fund for Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders will help the Focused Ultrasound Foundation achieve its mission of making focused ultrasound widely available in the shortest amount of time, thereby improving the lives of countless people impacted by these terrible diseases and to offer a new hope to patients and their families.
“The Foundation is extremely grateful to the Smith family for their leadership and vision in recognizing the promise of focused ultrasound. With their help, we can help advance this completely new, game changing approach to treating neurodegenerative disorders,” says Foundation Chairman Neal F. Kassell, MD.