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Brian Wallach is 45 years old.
A husband and a father of two.
For much of his life, he worked as a lawyer and political organizer,
even serving as White House counsel under President Barack Obama.
But eight years ago, he received a devastating diagnosis.
I was diagnosed with ALS in 2017 at the age of 37.
My wife Sandra and I had just brought our second daughter home when we received the news.
ALS, known widely as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disorder where motor neurons are gradually lost,
leading patients to slowly lose control of their bodies.
For me, this has meant a gradual loss of my ability to walk, use my hands, and speak.
At the time, Brian was given six months to live.
I couldn't accept that timeline.
Instead, I chose to fight with everything I had to change it.
Eight years later, I'm still here.
Today, Brian and his wife Sandra are advocates for the more than 30,000 Americans living with ALS.
They founded the non-profit I AM ALS, in part to advocate for research funding for a cure.
And some of the most exciting ALS research to date is coming out of China.
China is trying to have the companies do something that nobody in the world has ever done.
That is China's goal, like, to be a global biotech leader.