Reading Time: 4 minutesA systematic review of existing scientific literature, performed by a team of researchers led by Dr Arpan Mehta, MRC/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellow
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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Darija Šoltić. Originally from Croatia, I came to the UK to do my PhD in neuroscience, where I worked
Reading Time: 3 minutesA recently published paper, reviewing 15 studies that investigated the effectiveness of riluzole as a treatment for MND in real-time, has suggested that the drug
Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest researcher blog post: My name is Sophie Nyberg and I am a neuroscientist currently working in the Lighthouse COVID-19 testing labs in Alderley Park,
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, researchers are increasingly also interested in events happening outside the brain and spinal cord, in particular whether changes in
Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Elisabeth Jirström: Hi! My name is Elisabeth Jirström and I am a PhD student at Royal College of Surgeons
Reading Time: 6 minutesGuest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written
Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Liam Knox: My name is Liam Knox and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined Dr