Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have been lucky in the past two years to work at the International Symposium on ALS/MND, and am always inspired by the enthusiasm, and
Category: MND Research
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy reasons for being an ‘incurable optimist’ is the increasing amount of research being carried out and the number of researchers interested in MND and
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: < 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
Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Symposium Treatments
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