Stem cell research happening at UW-Madison every day slowly works toward a cure. Many students and professors are spending years working with stem cells. Su Chun Zhang, a professor of Anatomy and Neurology at the Waisman Center at UW-Madison says, “Itâ??s a very mysterious disease.. the problem is we donâ??t even know what causes ALS. Even though itâ??s difficult to predict when we will get there [to finding a cure}, I think we are doing our best to go from multiple avenues toward that goal.”