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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Funding for Gut-sy MND research announced

29 March 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday the Reta Lila Weston Trust announced that they will be funding Dr Nikhil Sharma and colleagues at the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre (LWENC)

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Focus on the research presented in posters in Dublin

29 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver 100 talks were given at this month’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Dublin. There were also over 450 posters of research being presented too.

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Prize winning posters in Dublin

23 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs well as all the networking, debate and new information being shared, the International Symposium on ALS/MND is also a time to celebrate achievements by

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What causes MND – an update from Dublin

8 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat causes MND is the question that so many of us want to know. For the majority of people with MND we know that it

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Could a Diabetes drug be useful in treating MND?

2 August 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we announce a new collaboration for a preclinical research study on the diabetes drug liraglutide, in the hope that positive results will lead to

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New genetic discoveries tell us more about what causes MND – Part 2

27 July 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo sets of MND genetic results were published yesterday. One of these results was about the importance of a new gene called NEK1. The second

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New genetic discoveries tell us more about what causes MND – Part 1

26 July 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday some exciting news about the genetics of MND was published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. The results come in two research papers published

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How faulty proteins disrupt waste recycling and disposal inside nerve cells

1 July 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield have uncovered a new function of the C9orf72 protein. A paper

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Motor neurone signalling and the effects of RNA in MND

30 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Pietro Fratta completed his first MRC-MND Association Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2014. Last year he was awarded a new £1.16 million Clinician Scientist

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Identifying the genetic causes of MND in specific populations

29 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Russell McLaughlin from Trinity College Dublin is one of our Junior Non-Clinical Fellows. Our Non-Clinical Fellowships were awarded for the first time last year.

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