10 years after the viral phenomenon of the Ice Bucket Challenge, designed to raise media awareness and funds for the fight against Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease (known in France as Charcot's disease), the challenge is back in France, on the initiative of Les Invincibles led by Olivier Goy and the Association pour la Recherche sur la SLA (ARSLA). The Défi Givré 2024 is being passed on among well-known media and social network personalities, as well as in the ALS research community.
After Dr Séverine Boillée's team at the Institut du Cerveau in Paris, Dr Caroline Rouaux's team at the Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine in Strasbourg took up the challenge on Thursday June 13, challenging in turn Dr Cédric Raoul's team at the Institut des Neurosciences in Montpellier, as well as influencer Hugo Décrypte and comedian and humorist Nicole Ferroni.
Donations collected via https://www.defigivre.org, are dedicated to accelerating ALS research.