Ice Bucket Challenge Creator Continues To Inspire

A Westchester man battling ALS is fighting for a cure and one way he hopes to do that is by bringing back the ice bucket challenge.

Pat Quinn was diagnosed with the deadly degenerative disease in 2013.

One year later he helped start the ice bucket challenge. The viral campaign showed people dumping ice over their heads to raise ALS awareness.

Oxford Biodynamics PLC (LON:OBD) was spun out from Oxford University in June 2007 with the aim of translating fundamental scientific advances into a commercialised platform technology and a new generation of biomarkers for cancer and other diseases. OBD has been granted a substantial funding award from Innovate UK to develop and validate diagnostic, prognostic and predictive EpiSwitch™ biomarkers for ALS.

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