Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday, we announced on our website the disappointing news that the UK-based lithium clinical trial showed that lithium carbonate is ineffective at treating MND. Commenting
Category: Research we fund
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thanks to funding and some strategic ‘match-making’ by the MND Association, a new drug may have taken one step closer to beginning clinical trials in
Reading Time: 4 minutes And the answers to our Christmas Quiz are: How many neurones does a human have? Billions Which animal has the largest brain? Bottlenose dolphin How
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of
Reading Time: 5 minutes We invited Prof Siddharthan Chandran to be our keynote speaker at our Annual Conference and below we’ve provided a brief overview of his presentation which we hope
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today is a big day for the research grants team as we are launching our online summary application form for researchers applying for biomedical* project
Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in March I mentioned that the Association’s peer review practices were being audited by the Association of Medical Research Charities. I’m pleased to say
Reading Time: 2 minutes It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway!) that it is important for MND researchers to know what each other are up to –
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although millions of years of evolution separate humans from insects, a tiny fruit fly called Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most extensively studied