Publication overview

Research center

Kantonsspital St. Gallen

St.Gallen, Switzerland

Kantonsspital St. Gallen

About the center

The Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Center at the Kantonsspital St.Gallen is the major referral center for ALS patients in Switzerland. The dedicated team provides multidisciplinary holistic care for patients and caregivers and is also engaged in clinical research. Research projects include studies in neurophysiology, genetics, imaging, outcome measures and clinical trials. The center is committed to international collaborations and is therefore participating in Project MinE.
The Neuromuscular Diseases Unit is partner with the Siwss ALS Foundation and the ALS Association Switzerland in Project MinE. The goal is to analyse 600 DNA samples.

Markus Weber

Professor of Neurology, Head Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic

Kantonsspital St.Gallen

Markus Weber

Professor of Neurology, Head Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic

Prof. dr. Weber is founder of the ALS clinic in St. Gallen in 2006 and the ALS clinic at the University Hospital Basel and acting chief of all ALS research projects in St. Gallen and Basel.

He is a clinical researcher who has been involved in numerous ALS clinical trials as PI and advisory board member and has published numerous articles on ALS and neuromuscular diseases. The ALS clinic St.Gallen is part of an extensive European network of ALS research participating in several EU-funded projects. Markus is currently a member of the Executive committee of the European network for the cure of ALS (ENCALS).