Merit Cudkowicz.
Health
Glint of light in therapy for deadly ALS after decades of struggle
New drug shows researchers ‘this illness can be stopped’
Max Larkin
Harvard Staff Writer
May 8, 2026
6 min read
Merit Cudkowicz has been working on ALS for three decades. She knew who she wanted to tell as soon as she was able to discuss the breakthrough findings publicly. “The first person I called w…