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  1. Sep 6, 2023 · Back in New York, in October 2021, a doctor offers a diagnosis: The same disease that killed Mr. Doctoroff’s father and uncle; the same disease he had already raised millions to fight.

    • Christopher Maag
  2. Sep 16, 2022 · Late last year, Dan was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which is a disease of the motor neurons, which send signals to the muscles to move. In ALS, the motor neurons die and patients become progressively paralyzed. A person lives an average of four years after diagnosis.

  3. Jan 25, 2022 · Daniel Doctoroff founded the research organization Target ALS after his father and uncle died from the disease. Now he may have it, too.

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  4. May 2, 2024 · In 2013, Doctoroff launched Target ALS “because it was personal,” he says. After he was diagnosed with ALS in October 2021, he quit his start-up job to focus full-time on making a...

  5. Then in the late fall of 2021, Doctoroff was diagnosed with ALS. He stepped down as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company that accelerates the integration of digital technology into urban environments, and as the Chairman of The Shed, the innovative cultural institution on the Far West Side of Manhattan ...

  6. Aug 17, 2023 · After his uncle's death, Doctoroff decided to to launch the medical research foundation Target ALS in 2013, with the goal of raising as much money as possible towards funding clinical trials...

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  8. Dec 16, 2021 · A personal health update from Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff that he very likely has ALS and will be stepping down from the company to focus on family and fighting this terrible disease.

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