Reporting from the 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND
Reading Time: 3 minutes Saturday afternoon saw the 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND expand from two to three sessions running in parallel. Times have changed from the early years of the meeting when sessions finished at lunchtime on the second day because there wasn’t enough stuff to talk about! Rather than flitting between three different lecture halls, I opted to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our general election campaign for 2015 is featured around communication because we believe that nobody should have to lose their voice to MND. The afternoon session on Friday 5 December during the 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND also focussed on this topic. Around 80-95% of people living with MND will face communication problems as their speech…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Over the summer I travelled over the Healy mountain Pass in Ireland – my memory of the drive is lots of hairpin bends. Fast forward six months and I’m reminded of those bends at the first day of the International Symposium – this time we’re talking about hairpins in RNA rather than roads!
Reading Time: < 1 minute After seeing the works of art on the wall – I wonder if the people in the picture will be inspired to buy a poster in the shop on the way home. Posters come in all shapes and sizes from B&W Athena posters, to Hello Kitty. In Brussels the posters are still works of art,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND began today in Brussels, Belgium. More than 900 delegates joined the opening session to hear Dr Alfred Sandrock from Biogen Idec’s opening talk. The only proven drug for MND is riluzole. This is the only treatment to have passed all stages of clinical trial testing, showing it to be…
Reading Time: 3 minutes On 4 November, we welcomed two of our funded researchers to our offices in Northampton. Ruxandra Mutihac and Matt Gabel gave us a ‘taste’ of what’s to come for this year’s 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND, by speaking to us about their research. The symposium is the World’s largest MND-specific research conference and is now only two weeks away!
