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Author: Kiran Goyal

I work as a Research Officer within the MND Association to help organise the International Symposium and communicating the latest updates of MND research across our social media platforms. I graduated with a master's degree in Neuroscience from Cardiff University in 2023. I have previously supported the awareness of Fragile X syndrome within the UK.

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Events Healthcare MND Research

Regaining control – why open conversation might help manage anxiety after diagnosis

20 October 202220 October 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesReceiving a diagnosis of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) can often lead to people feeling that they are losing control within their lives. Researchers at the

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Working towards making muscle function assessments easier and pain free

23 September 202223 September 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesHello, my name is Judith Bilgorai and I am a first year PhD student, funded by the MND Association, at King’s College London. I work

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Travel disruptions: transport along neurones in MND

23 August 20222 August 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutesA newly published paper in Acta Neuropathologica Communications has shed light on the behaviour of healthy motor neurones compared to motor neurones found in MND.

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The generation of synthetic placebo data for ALS clinical trials

4 August 20224 August 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this guest blog written by Harry Bowles and Sarah Opie-Martin from King’s College London they discuss their MND research poster which was presented at

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ENCALS 2022 highlights: award-winning research

7 July 20227 July 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery year at the European Network to Cure ALS (ENCALS) meeting, the Young Investigator award is presented to the brightest and best young scientist in

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Behind the research… ENCALS 2022 Conference Highlights

17 June 202217 June 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMembers of the research recently attended the 20th European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ENCALS) meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 1-3rd of June

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Symposium Spotlight: Experience of a Researcher

8 June 20228 June 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith planning for the 33rd International Symposium in full swing, we are back chatting to Silverio Conte, Chief of International Relations at Associazione conSLAncio Onlus,

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A ‘wee molecule’: the tiny urinary biomarker neopterin and its role in MND progression

1 April 20227 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy name is Stephanie Shepheard, and I am a Research Associate in the Motor Neuron Disease & Neurotrophic Research Laboratory (MND&NR Lab), Flinders Health &

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Symposium Spotlight: Biomarkers in MND – improving drug development and clinical trial design

30 March 202230 March 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDiagnosing disease faster, accurately predicting disease progression, assessing the ability of a new drug to reach its target – I think we’d all agree that

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What a difference a year makes: on entering the ALS research community 

9 March 20229 March 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a guest blog written by Danielle Boyce, DPA, MPH, Executive Director, the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research and Answer ALS Research Program;

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