That's right. This is Dr. Jean-Pierre Julien's work. In fact, the idea for what he's doing is based on something that was tried for Alzheimer's disease, which was to try to immunize individuals against a protein or a fragment of a protein, which triggers an inflammatory response. Dr. Julien is doing this with the superoxide dismutase protein that's been implicated directly in familial ALS and probably indirectly in the rest of ALS cases. I know they are doing this in animal models right now.
On June 8th, 2010. See this statement in context.