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The MND Association’s vision is a world free from MND. Realising this vision means investing more in research, further developing partnerships with the research community, funding bodies and industry, while ensuring that advances in understanding and treating MND are communicated as quickly and effectively as possible.

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

GLT8D1: new gene identifies novel disease mechanism

28 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMND Association-supported clinical fellow Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, and a PhD student Tobias Moll, report mutations in a new MND gene which has uncovered a previously

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Cognition and FTD: Highlights from Glasgow

21 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Rachel Boothman and Kaye Stevens This blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Psychological and emotional wellbeing: Highlights from Glasgow

20 December 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Fathoming MND

19 March 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by our Senior Clinical Fellow Prof Martin Turner, a Consultant Neurologist at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. “Will it affect my children?”

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MND Research

Work Experience with the Research Development team

21 February 201810 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Kiera Belson and I have just completed three days of work experience at the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association for an award

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Standing on the shoulders of… Dorothy Hodgkin

31 January 20182 August 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn the way to work last Wednesday, a story on BBC Radio 4 – ‘Today programme’ suddenly grabbed my attention: “February will mark the 100th

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MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on causes and treatments

22 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutesFollowing on from our previous catch-up blog on clinical management talks presented at the Symposium, here is a continuation that looks at talks focusing on

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MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on ‘clinical management’

21 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom abstracts to posters, pushpins to ribbons, it takes a whole year to get to this day – no, not Christmas, but the 28th International

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MND Research

Motor Neuron murder mystery: who killed Mr Motor Neuron?

11 August 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is a fabricated story inspired by the current knowledge of MND. Today, we wake to news that Mr Motor Neuron (one of the

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

11th Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellowship awarded

24 July 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are delighted to announce that Dr Arpan Mehta has been appointed as our latest Lady Edith Wolfson Fellow, jointly funded by the MND Association

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