Reading Time: 2 minutes My reasons for being an ‘incurable optimist’ is the increasing amount of research being carried out and the number of researchers interested in MND and
Year: 2010
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am optimistic every time I prepare a talk when I look for something new to say about advances in research. Since the discovery of
Reading Time: < 1 minute After being asked to write about why I am a research optimist, I tried to think about the achievements in MND research. After attending the Care Centre
Reading Time: < 1 minute MND does not respect national boundaries and neither does our research efforts. There are so many researchers, clinicians and health and social care professionals from
Reading Time: < 1 minute When I started my job at the Association just four years ago we were funding 19 research projects and studentships. Researchers were using animal models
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Wednesday I attended the MND care centre directors meeting. This is where all of the care centre directors, care centre co-ordinators, our regional care development
Reading Time: < 1 minute Next week is MND awareness week (19 June to 27 June). Awareness week sees the national launch of our brand new awareness campaign called Incurable Optimism,
Reading Time: 3 minutes A study, part funded by the MND Association and led by Prof Chris Shaw from King’s College London has been published in the June edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute At the end of last week, we learnt that the Brain Research Trust (BRT) planned on appealing for donations on BBC Radio 4 for their
Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Symposium Treatments
Symposium programme begins to take shape
Reading Time: < 1 minute Over the last month the symposium programme committee, including myself and Brian, have been busy reading the abstracts submitted for presentation at the International Symposium