Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s that time of year again where as one research grant application round is drawing to a close another one is just starting. Just one
Category: Research we fund
Reading Time: < 1 minute Next month will see the start of three new Association-funded research projects that will each move us closer to achieving some of the key targets set
Reading Time: 2 minutes The last few days have been quite a hectic for the research development team for many reasons. Annual conference workshop This year, our Annual Conference
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’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
Causes and disease mechanisms Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Treatments
Updating our research strategy
Reading Time: < 1 minute Our 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 minute We 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: 2 minutes Stephanie Rainey-Smith (pictured left) has recently passed her MND Association funded PhD studentship. Congratulations Stephanie! This studentship was somewhat different from the others that we fund as it
Reading Time: < 1 minute When 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: 3 minutes A 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 minute At the end of last week, we learnt that the Brain Research Trust (BRT) planned on appealing for donations on BBC Radio 4 for their