Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve been extremely excited about this research finding for a while now and have closely followed the progress of Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi’s publication as it was
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Updating our research strategy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOur Research Strategy has recently been revised and can be downloaded from our website: http://www.mndassociation.org/document.rm?id=751. Although it can seem that MND research moves at ‘glacial’
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are now funding a studentship stem cell research project! This project aims to develop a human motor neurone model of MND using skin cells
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am optimistic every time I prepare a talk when I look for something new to say about advances in research. Since the discovery of
Reading Time: 3 minutesA study, part funded by the MND Association and led by Prof Chris Shaw from King’s College London has been published in the June edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the end of last week, we learnt that the Brain Research Trust (BRT) planned on appealing for donations on BBC Radio 4 for their
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Symposium programme begins to take shape
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the last month the symposium programme committee, including myself and Brian, have been busy reading the abstracts submitted for presentation at the International Symposium
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s Friday afternoon and I’m just back from a press briefing in London, where we were unveiling an exciting new stem cell research programme. I’ve
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is really quiet in the office today, with a few colleagues out and about for various reasons. As soon as the thought entered my
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the afternoon was drawing to a close in the office yesterday, we learnt of an exciting new MND research paper that had been published