Dr. Brian Kaspar Discusses a New Method for Studying ALS, with Potential to Test Therapeutics in Individual Patients :: April 2014 Guest: Brian Kaspar, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy and the first recipient of the Grant Morrow, III, MD, Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is also an associate professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and a recognized national expert in the discovery of new therapies for spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.