Fundamental research on ALS all across Canada is really a cost-effective type of research. To transition to clinics, I think it costs a lot of money. What you find in fundamental research is that it is very expensive to be able to transpose it to clinics. There's a good initiative by ALS Canada, called the Canadian ALS Clinical Trials and Research Network, which tries to bring together all clinics across Canada, because to have access to a large pool of patients in only one province or only one ALS centre.... Canada is a huge country, so it's difficult to manage all the ALS research together. I think ALS Canada found a way to do it, but it's really costly. We need that type of thing.
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