Ludo Van Den Bosch awarded for research into ALS: ‘I hope to be able to stop this terrible disease one day’

Ludo Van Den Bosch (59) just received the Prize Generet, good for 1 million euros. With this, his lab can continue to search for new insights into the rare disease ALS, which will hopefully lead to a cure in the long term.

He is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven, but did not study medicine himself. It became botany, because of his passion for nature, which he inherited from home. My father, a…