NEALS has always understood that infrastructure alone does not move science forward, people do. By training thousands of professionals, NEALS has built durable capacity, strengthening not just individual trials, but the ALS research workforce itself.

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 In 2009, NEALS launched its first Principal Investigator Training Course, preparing emerging leaders to design and lead high-quality ALS trials. Over time, this commitment expanded to include coordinators, evaluators, and multidisciplinary study teams.

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Today, NEALS offers top-tier educational and training programs that strengthen trial readiness, promote best practices, and support continuous learning across the ALS research community. Through investigator workshops, outcome measure training, and hands-on, topical sessions – such as multidisciplinary workshops on feeding tubes and ALS and CME-accredited respiratory care and ventilation training – NEALS equips both early-career and experienced teams with the expertise needed to conduct rigorous, patient-centered research.

 

Through programs including the Clinical Research Staff Training & Development Workshop and Outcome Measure Training, NEALS has trained hundreds of principal investigators and study teams. These efforts ensure that innovation is not confined to a single institution, but shared across the network – raising the quality of ALS clinical research and care worldwide.