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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
Text reads: Celebrating 10 years of our non-clinical fellowship programme

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
Clinical Trials MND Research News

Latest news from the CENTAUR trial puts AMX0035 in the mix

4 September 202030 September 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week saw the publication of the Phase 2/3 trial results of the experimental drug cocktail, AMX0035, developed by the pharmaceutical company, Amylyx, and carried

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Does the glymphatic system play a role in MND?

27 August 202027 August 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesAt last year’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Perth, Australia, Professor Jeffrey Iliff talked about the glymphatic system (C1 in abstract book) – a series

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Studentship success – next steps for Matthew Nolan

11 August 202011 August 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Matthew Nolan. My name is Matthew, I’m currently a post-doctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Toxicity of cerebrospinal fluid in ALS/MND

7 August 20207 August 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesA systematic review of existing scientific literature, performed by a team of researchers led by Dr Arpan Mehta, MRC/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Fellow

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

The FUS with faulty mitochondria – the powerhouse of the cell

3 August 202031 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Darija Šoltić. Originally from Croatia, I came to the UK to do my PhD in neuroscience, where I worked

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MND Research News Treatments

Review of evidence suggests Riluzole treatment may lead to extended survival

28 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recently published paper, reviewing 15 studies that investigated the effectiveness of riluzole as a treatment for MND in real-time, has suggested that the drug

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Healthcare MND Research Models of MND News

Lighting the way from MND research to the COVID-19 response

21 July 202020 July 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesGuest researcher blog post: My name is Sophie Nyberg and I am a neuroscientist currently working in the Lighthouse COVID-19 testing labs in Alderley Park,

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Clinical Trials MND Research News

Emerging Gene-Targeting Therapies for SOD1-ALS

13 July 202028 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Thursday marked an exciting milestone in the search for effective therapies for MND as full results from the early-phase 1/2 trial of Biogen’s tofersen

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Clinical Trials News

Targeting Tregs: IMODALS study paves the way for MIROCALS

7 July 20205 May 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutesAlthough ALS is a neurodegenerative disease, researchers are increasingly also interested in events happening outside the brain and spinal cord, in particular whether changes in

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Causes and disease mechanisms Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

tiRNA: A Newcomer in Motor Neuron Disease

30 June 20207 July 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Elisabeth Jirström: Hi! My name is Elisabeth Jirström and I am a PhD student at Royal College of Surgeons

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