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...Hebrew, “chai” means life, and for the Harvard Business School classmates and professors of Avichai “Avi” Kremer, it is no coincidence that he has been a symbol of life since he was diagnosed last fall with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Since Kremer was first diagnosed, this second-year Business School student has raised over two million dollars, facilitated discussions between competing pharmaceutical companies, and founded two companies dedicated to discovering a treatment for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kremer will graduate this week...
...explosive leaps. The first half of “Pointe/Counterpointe” concluded with a beautiful, classical group number, “Mendelssohn Romance.” For the most part, the group gave a very clean performance of this lovely choreography by Joffrey Ballet’s Avichai Scher which was set to a Mendelssohn piano trio. Female soloist Joanna R. Binney ’08, gave a particularly remarkable performance. “Slung Low Rising,” an upbeat, contemporary lyrical piece, provided a lively and promising beginning for the second half of the evening...
...Avichai Kremer, MBA ’06, began treatments last fall for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since then, students and faculty at HBS have set out both to increase awareness of the disease and to raise money to fund research for it. There is no known cure for ALS, which is often fatal...
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