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Finding Purpose, Building Connections and Expanding Horizons: Reflections from the MND EnCouRage UK Conference

3 September 20253 September 2025 Research Information Team

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships: looking to the present!

22 August 202522 August 2025 Eleanor Green

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships: looking to the past!

20 August 202520 August 2025 Eleanor Green
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Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships!

18 August 202522 August 2025 Eleanor Green

Making Gene Therapies Smarter and Safer

28 July 202528 July 2025 Gen Temple

MND EnCouRage UK 2025: Encouraging the future leaders of MND research

22 July 202523 July 2025 Eleanor Green
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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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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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32nd Symposium: Virtual Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

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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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND News

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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