“Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” — Lou Gehrig Yankee stadium retirement speech, July 4, 1939.

How are new medications created? How does an idea for a treatment lead to the development of a product? How do you choose the right target and optimal mechanisms of action?

Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are a debilitating subset of diseases causing progressive neuronal destruction and eventual loss of muscular function