A Long Swim

07/22/2025

The A Long Swim team is hard at work today completing a relay race from Nantucket to Martha’s Vineyard 🌊 Follow our new Facebook for updates at A Long Swim

A Long Swim designs and manages open water swimming events raising funds for collaborative ALS world class research.

07/21/2025

Attention A Long Swim Followers 🚨

Long time, no talk! We haven’t posted on this page in quite a while because it was hacked over a year ago. After a long effort, we’ve regained limited access.

To stay connected and share updates in real time, we’ve created a new official A Long Swim page. Please follow us here:
👉 https://www.facebook.com/alongswimorg/

We’ll be posting live tomorrow from the Nantucket to Martha’s Vineyard relay swim – see you in the morning!

01/24/2023

We thank ALS/TDI for hosting Dr. Ozdinler and Dr. Silverman to their TownHall Meeting and for discussing the developments on NU9, now AKV9.

Learn more about ALS Town Halls here: https://www.als.net/als-town-hall/

01/22/2023

Lin’s voice will forever be inextricably linked with WXRT, the Chicago Cubs, and the ALS community. We miss him already.

01/17/2023

Please join Dr Ozdinler and Dr Silverman on their ALSTDI Townhall meeting, discussing NU-9.

It will be on Jan 19, 2pm CST.

Please register here:

The ALS Town Hall, hosted by ALS TDI, is a virtual forum for that allows the ALS community to safely convene while social distancing and discuss ALS research.

01/14/2023

There’s a fine line between ”hobby” and “obsession.”

12/13/2022

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11/05/2022

Please congratulate the Ozdinler Lab.
The Ozdinler Lab presented 4 different posters, gave a platform talk, and received the best poster award at the NEALS meeting.
Dr Ozdinler also worked very hard for the establishment of 3 new NEALS sites in Turkey as international members, and they were welcomed this year.
The platform talk was about a collaborative grant with a company and how this collaboration moved the field forward.
Ozdinler Lab continues to work hard till there is an effective cure for ALS.

11/04/2022

We had the terrific opportunity to be interviewed for a podcast! Jay Clark, of Making Our World Better, was introduced to me by a friend and teammate, Kurt Nielsen.

Jay put it all together, and we are honored to be part of his catalog of interviews of such amazing world-changers.

Discussion includes swimming (of course!) as well as the importance of teamwork, appreciating good luck, and the amazing progress being made in ALS research.

Listen, and decide what you think.

The diagnosis of ALS is about as cruel as a medical diagnosis comes, but you’ll hear how in the wake of not one but two family ALS diagnosis, Doug McConnell, co-founder of A Long Swim, along with his sister Ellen, decided to fight back and are making a real difference in the epicenter of ALS resea...

09/18/2022

All swimmers are in the water swimming along the wall. In we go!

09/18/2022

Our A Long Swim Team will swim along the wall.