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Sep 16, 2022 · Dan's dad and uncle died of ALS and when his uncle died in 2010, Dan decided that he had to do something. He created a new type of research organization called Target ALS, which has played a major role in the dramatic progress toward finding treatments for ALS in the last ten years.
Jan 25, 2022 · His father, Martin Doctoroff, died of the disease in 2002, and ALS claimed his uncle Michael Doctoroff some eight years later, in 2010. The same year, he founded the research-focused organization that would later be known as Target ALS .
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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...
Sep 6, 2023 · Only Mr. Doctoroff’s closest aides know his mother is fighting cancer. Then his father is diagnosed with A.L.S.
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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 ...
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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In December 2021, Doctoroff announced he was resigning as CEO as a result of developing symptoms that align with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), from which his father and uncle died. [37] Doctors would later confirm the diagnosis of ALS, a neurodegenerative disease. [38]
