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
Category: MND Research
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter being asked to write about why I am a research optimist, I tried to think about the achievements in MND research. After attending the Care Centre
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND does not respect national boundaries and neither does our research efforts. There are so many researchers, clinicians and health and social care professionals from
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I started my job at the Association just four years ago we were funding 19 research projects and studentships. Researchers were using animal models
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Wednesday I attended the MND care centre directors meeting. This is where all of the care centre directors, care centre co-ordinators, our regional care development
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNext week is MND awareness week (19 June to 27 June). Awareness week sees the national launch of our brand new awareness campaign called Incurable Optimism,
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
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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: 2 minutesAs Brian said earlier this week, the news that we are now funding an international stem cell project went national and indeed international through a
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