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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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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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Clinical Trials MND Research

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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32nd Symposium: Virtual Healthcare MND Research Symposium

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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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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New discovery reveals why mysterious genetic variant impacts ALS severity

24 February 20222 August 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy name is Oscar Wilkins and I am a PhD student working with Professors Pietro Fratta (recipient of a MND Association Research Fellowship) and Jernej

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Symposium Spotlight: Lets talk about saliva

18 February 202218 February 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesLike many things we take for granted, it’s easy to forget the importance of our saliva. Until we begin to think about it, we are

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