Cai Lei and his wife donate 100 million yuan to support ALS research

According to news from this site on January 27, Cai Lei, an ALS fighter, founder of the Overcome ALS Charitable Trust, and former vice president of JD.com, and his wife Duan Rui will donate another 100 million yuan to support Basic research, drug research and development, clinical treatment and other scientific research projects on ALS.

Cai Lei also plans to establish an ALS research team of more than 100 people, dedicated to supporting scientists and doctors and promoting the improvement of the ALS scientific research system. They will strengthen cooperation with preclinical research cooperation platforms, such as cells, organs, animals and sample banks, while expanding resources such as gene banks. In addition, they will actively support the rapid development and preparation of small molecules, proteins, cells, AAV, nucleic acids and other drugs. At the same time, they will also build a national decentralized clinical cooperation network guided by authoritative experts to accelerate clinical recruitment and multi-dimensional evaluation of short- and long-term drug effects, and conduct a real-world research system. Finally, they will also work to establish an innovative care and medical mutual support system for ALS.

Cai Lei’s team will fund the above projects, has no demands for scientific research results or commercial interests, and its only expectation is to save the lives of 500,000 ALS patients.

After Cai Lei was diagnosed with ALS in October 2019, he focused all his energy and resources on how to effectively save ALS as soon as possible on the patient's life. He initiated information exchange between ALS patients at home and abroad and established a patient-centered 360-degree full life cycle medical data platform. At the same time, he learned that there was a lack of donated brains and spinal cords from ALS patients in medical research, so he personally signed up to donate and actively communicated with other patients to participate. This initiative provides a valuable resource for ALS research and brings hope to other patients.

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