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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
32nd Symposium: Virtual MND Research Models of MND

Symposium Spotlight: CRISPR- the magic behind gene editing in MND

28 April 202229 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesAs part of our Symposium Spotlight series, we’re looking back on some of the research presented at the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. This blog

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Clinical Trials MND Research News

12 MND clinical trial updates to keep an eye out for in 2022 – Part 2

13 April 202224 June 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesThis year is set to be an exciting time for MND research, and we are especially hopeful that MND clinical trials will take centre stage

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

12 MND clinical trial updates to keep an eye out for in 2022 – Part 1

7 April 202219 April 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutesLast month saw the two-year anniversary since the first COVID lockdown in England (the UK) which changed our lives forever – not least because of

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

A ‘wee molecule’: the tiny urinary biomarker neopterin and its role in MND progression

1 April 20227 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy name is Stephanie Shepheard, and I am a Research Associate in the Motor Neuron Disease & Neurotrophic Research Laboratory (MND&NR Lab), Flinders Health &

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Symposium Spotlight: Biomarkers in MND – improving drug development and clinical trial design

30 March 202230 March 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDiagnosing disease faster, accurately predicting disease progression, assessing the ability of a new drug to reach its target – I think we’d all agree that

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Symposium Spotlight: A closer look at IMODALS clinical trial outcomes

16 March 202216 March 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesAs the research team are starting to get stuck into planning our next International Symposium on ALS/MND we are taking a look back at some

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32nd Symposium: Virtual Clinical Trials MND Research

What a difference a year makes: on entering the ALS research community 

9 March 20229 March 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a guest blog written by Danielle Boyce, DPA, MPH, Executive Director, the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research and Answer ALS Research Program;

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New discovery reveals why mysterious genetic variant impacts ALS severity

24 February 20222 August 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy name is Oscar Wilkins and I am a PhD student working with Professors Pietro Fratta (recipient of a MND Association Research Fellowship) and Jernej

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How technology can play a role in connecting with the people you love

22 February 202222 February 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes“Go set the world on fire!” This is how Steve Gleason, a former professional American football player who is now living with ALS, finished his

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Symposium Spotlight: Lets talk about saliva

18 February 202218 February 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesLike many things we take for granted, it’s easy to forget the importance of our saliva. Until we begin to think about it, we are

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