AFTD & ALS Association Launch Funding Opportunity For Digital Tool Development In ALS & Frontotemporal Dementia

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (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 . . .