New ALS screening study aims to Fast-Track patients to trials

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Ability to provide written informed consent. 2. Adults \> 18 years of age. 3. Diagnosis of symptomatic ALS that meets either the revised El Escorial Criteria.(clinically possible, probable, probable lab-supported, or definite) or the Gold Coast Criteria. 4. Available or pending clinically obtained CLIA ALS genetic panel report. 5. Time since onset of weakness due to ALS ≤ 24 months at the time of MCSP screening. 6. Slow VC ≥ 65% of predicted capacity value for gender, height and age at screening. 7. Clinically unremarkable Complete Blood Counts as per SI's discretion, including but not limited to Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL. 8. Ability and willingness to complete all study procedures per SI's assessment. 9. Negative pregnancy test at screening for women of child-bearing potential (WOCB), defined as a sexually mature woman who has not undergone a hysterectomy or who has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months (i.e., who has had menses any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months). Exclusion Criteria: 1. Clinically significant unstable medical or surgical condition that would pose a risk to the participant's trial procedural participation or interfere with data collection, per SI's assessment. 2. Presence of cognitive or mental health disorders impairing ability to provide informed consent for the study per SI assessment. 3. Active cancer or history of cancer, unless it was successfully treated for durable remission or cure more than 3 years ago. (Note that basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma in situ, cervical carcinoma in situ, prostatic carcinoma in situ, or other malignancies that have been curatively excised at any time previously and with no evidence of disease recurrence for at least 3 years are not exclusionary.) 4. Prior solid organ transplantation. 5. Use of investigational treatments for ALS (off-label use or active participation in a clinical trial) within 5 half-lives (if known) or 30 days (whichever is longer) prior to the MCSP Screening Visit. (Please refer to the Manual of Procedures (MOP) for current list of experimental therapies) 6. Screening 12-lead ECG showing QT interval corrected for rate (QTcF) \> 470 msec for women and \> 450 msec for men, absence of second degree or higher AV block or other clinically significant cardiac arrythmias. 7. Clinically significant abnormalities in the Comprehensive Metabolic Panel per SI's assessment, including but not limited to: 1. Serum alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase \> 3 times the upper limit of normal, or serum bilirubin \> 1.5 × upper limit of normal 2. Estimated GFR (eGFR) of \< 30 mL/min/1.73m2 8. Other clinically significant electrolyte and metabolic abnormalities 9. If female, breastfeeding, pregnant, or of child-bearing potential and unwilling to use effective contraception for duration of the trial and after discontinuing treatment as outlined in the ALS MyMatch trial protocol. 10. Clinically significant unstable medical conditions (other than ALS) that would pose a risk to the participant, per SI's assessment (e.g., cardiovascular instability, systemic infection,), or clinically significant laboratory abnormality or ECG changes. 11. Exposure at any time to any gene therapies under investigation for the treatment of ALS (off-label use or investigational). 12. Participants who require Permanent assisted ventilation (PAV). PAV defined as more than 22 hours per day of noninvasive or invasive mechanical ventilation for more than seven consecutive days. The date of onset of PAV is the first day of the seven days.