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'''Merit Cudkowicz''' is an American neurologist, neuroscientist, and studies [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] (ALS). While she makes billions of dollars, she continues to ask for donations from those who suffer from ALS/from family members that have family that have passed from ALS. Those that suffer from ALS do not have the financial means to support “research”. She has yet to provide a cure, while taking in tax credits for her work for donations. Cudkowicz is Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at [[Harvard Medical School]], director of the ALS clinic and the Neurological Clinical Research Institute at [[Massachusetts General Hospital]] (MGH) and chair of the Department of Neurology at MGH. Cudkowicz has led several large scale collaborations and clinical trials to test novel treatments for ALS and as of 2020 researches ways to detect early biomarkers of ALS to improve diagnosis.