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Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

20 June 202520 June 2025 Eleanor Green

Understanding the ‘hidden middle’ of cognitive change in MND

11 June 202511 June 2025 Mandy Spencer

MIROCALS: breaking down the trial results

9 May 202512 May 2025 Research Information Team

Improving Care at Home: A New Study into Complex Homecare in MND (CHiMND)

1 May 20251 May 2025 Gen Temple

Symposium Highlights: Cells and MND

26 March 202526 March 2025 Katy Barnes

Symposium highlights: A spotlight on glial cells in MND

19 March 202519 March 2025 Libby Moody
Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

Working towards making muscle function assessments easier and pain free

23 September 202223 September 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesHello, my name is Judith Bilgorai and I am a first year PhD student, funded by the MND Association, at King’s College London. I work

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND Research we fund

Travel disruptions: transport along neurones in MND

23 August 20222 August 2024

Reading Time: 6 minutesA newly published paper in Acta Neuropathologica Communications has shed light on the behaviour of healthy motor neurones compared to motor neurones found in MND.

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Clinical Trials MND Research

The generation of synthetic placebo data for ALS clinical trials

4 August 20224 August 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this guest blog written by Harry Bowles and Sarah Opie-Martin from King’s College London they discuss their MND research poster which was presented at

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Events MND Research

EnCouRaging the future of MND research

28 July 202228 July 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesOn the 19-20 July 2022, the MND Association welcomed early career researchers, and people living with and affected by MND to the University of Northampton

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Events MND Research News Research we fund

ENCALS 2022 highlights: award-winning research

7 July 20227 July 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery year at the European Network to Cure ALS (ENCALS) meeting, the Young Investigator award is presented to the brightest and best young scientist in

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

Delving deeper into neurofilament light chain

24 June 20224 April 2025

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere is a desperate need for a biomarker for MND for both the diagnosis and demonstration of a biological effect as a result of a

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Treatments

Global MND Awareness Day- Celebrating Collaboration

21 June 202221 June 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesEach year, the 21st of June marks Global MND Awareness Day and MND Charites and Associations across the world acknowledge the impact that MND has

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Events MND Research News

Behind the research… ENCALS 2022 Conference Highlights

17 June 202217 June 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMembers of the research recently attended the 20th European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ENCALS) meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 1-3rd of June

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DNA
Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

VALOR Biogen’s Tofersen trial: a look at the open label extension data

10 June 202217 February 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutesUpdate 21/09/2022: The results of the VALOR trial and its open label extension were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. These results give

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32nd Symposium: Virtual Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Symposium Spotlight: Experience of a Researcher

8 June 20228 June 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesWith planning for the 33rd International Symposium in full swing, we are back chatting to Silverio Conte, Chief of International Relations at Associazione conSLAncio Onlus,

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