On-Demand Digital Health Monthly:
Scientific Webinar Series
Advancing ALS Research with DHTs: Where Are We Now?
Presenting "Advancing ALS Research with DHTs: Where Are We Now?" the first installment in our new Digital Health Monthly Series.
Digital Health Monthly: Scientific Webinar Series
Sensor-based DHTs are shedding an illuminating light on how people function in their real-world environments. Drug developers, researchers, patients, and regulators are realizing the multifaceted value sensor-based DHTs can bring to clinical research.
As their adoption continues to grow, we at ActiGraph are excited to launch ‘Digital Health Monthly’, a new monthly series of science-focused webinars to share the latest high-impact developments in clinical research from innovators in the digital health field. Each monthly webinar will feature brief data-driven presentations from clinical researchers, data scientists, and biostatisticians on a focused topic with dedicated time for audience Q&A. We believe that together, we can move the digital health technology field forward faster, and we are excited for this opportunity to facilitate important discussions on the latest research with members of the digital health community.
Advancing ALS Research with DHTs: Where Are We Now?
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating, progressive neuromuscular disease with no current treatment to stop disease progression. While researchers and pharmaceutical companies are heavily investing in treatment, 2023 and 2024 have seen major programs failing to reach their primary endpoint, highlighting the need for more sensitive measures. Sensor-based digital health technologies (DHTs) can capture continuous and objective data related to the motor function of patients with ALS, providing more detailed data on disease progression and treatment efficacy.
During this 30-minute webinar, Rakesh Pilkar, PhD and Marcin Straczkiewicz, PhD, present their latest work on developing novel measures to quantify gait and upper limb movement to track the disease progression of patients with ALS.
Rakesh Pilkar, Senior Data Scientist, ActiGraph, presents patient-centric digital measures derived from wrist-worn DHTs that can capture functional decline in ALS and provide meaningful measures of gait in a real-world environment.
Marcin Straczkiewicz, Harvard TH Chan School of Medicine, presents latest developments on the wrist worn DHT-derived novel measures of upper limb movement, their clinical relevance and meaningfulness in tracking disease progression in patients with ALS.
