Reading Time: 4 minutesThe August Bank holiday weekend is always greeted with a sigh of relief from the Research Development Team as it signals the sending off of
Category: 21st Symposium: Orlando 2010
Reporting from the 21st International Symposium on ALS/MND
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur recent blog articles describe lots of fascinating science and the progress in the care and treatment of MND/ALS that was presented at the symposium.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs the symposium draws to a close, Prof Nigel Leigh gives the final scheduled talk. Prof Leigh is an eminent researcher and clinician and is arguably
Reading Time: 2 minutes After three days of deep discussion and debate among researchers clinicians and health and social care professionals, the final talks of the symposium begin. The
Reading Time: 2 minutesMND isn’t just about motor neurones going wrong in an otherwise perfectly functioning nervous system. A group of cells called glia, which surround motor neurones
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, two sessions are related to clinical trials. The first, concerns the planning and design of clinical trials. The second is the results of
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI attended a fantastic talk this morning in the session on ‘Translational Strategies’. This session is all about moving laboratory ideas for new treatments for
Reading Time: 2 minutesCarers play a vital role in the lives of people living with MND, so important in fact that at this year’s symposium a session addressed the
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, nearly 300 posters are being presented at the symposium – that’s three times the number of presentations being given as talks! Due to
Reading Time: 2 minutesA very natural response to receiving a diagnosis of MND is to ask ‘Why me?’. Many people with the disease question whether their MND could