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The LVH ALS Foundation is proud to donate $250,000 to start a new research endowment within the Duke ALS Clinic. The LVH ALS Research Endowment will allow the Duke ALS Clinic to investigate therapies associated with ALS Reversals.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple. We want to change the life of all those directly and indirectly affected by ALS and provide HOPE where currently there is none…
Who was LVH?
Larry Vance Hughes grew up in Burnsville, NC with his parents and two older brothers. He went to Western Carolina University and then into the accounting…
What is ALS?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells…
Research
The LVH Foundation is currently funding The Duke ALS Clinic, which began in the year 2000. It has grown from a place where a single neurologist followed…
What was powerful about Larry was that he could communicate in so many different ways. That’s what made him exceptional. It was not about his voice. It was about his spirit.” – Pastor Jerry Webb, Hillsdale UMC