Hobson, Esther V.
McDermott, Christopher J.
Article History
First Online: 12 August 2016
Competing interests
: E.V.H. and C.J.M. are investigators in a number of clinical studies of symptomatic treatments, interventions and drugs in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These include remote monitoring of noninvasive ventilation (receiving equipment from Phillips), and telehealth (funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), UK, and the Motor Neuron Disease Association, UK, in collaboration with Mylan) and a clinical trial of levosimendan (funded by Orion Pharma). C.J.M. has also been an investigator on clinical trials including diaphragmatic pacing (funded by the NIHR), the Sheffield Support Snood (funded by the NIHR), cough augmentation (funded by the Motor Neuron Disease Association UK), tirasemtiv (funded by Cytokinetics) and dexpramipexole (funded by Biogen Idec).