The J. Thomas May Center for Amyotrophic Laberal Sclerosis, named after a Pine Bluff banker diagnosed with the crippling disease, was dedicated on the University of Arkansas for Medical Services campus today.

ALS also is known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

The center is supported by more than $1 million in gifts to UAMS from friends and colleagues of May, who is chairman and CEO of Simmons First National Corp. in Pine Bluff and Simmons First National Bank.

The facility includes three laboratories for scientists and staff to study the neurodegenerative disease, which strikes otherwise healthy people and robs them of their voluntary muscle function.

Tags: ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, UAMS

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