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Meet Katie, the newest member of the Research Team

4 August 20265 August 2026 Katie

MND EnCouRage UK 2026: celebrating five years of supporting early career researchers

17 July 202617 July 2026 Libby

FaTHoM day 2026: Supporting families affected by inherited MND and FTD       

3 July 202630 July 2026 Eleanor

Clinical trials to look out for in 2026

9 April 20265 June 2026 Eleanor

Catching up with the 2024 Poster prize candidates

4 March 202611 August 2026 Kiran

Celebrating Early Career MND Researchers through the International Symposium on ALS/MND Poster Prize

23 February 202611 August 2026 Kiran
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

The FUS with faulty mitochondria – the powerhouse of the cell

3 August 202011 August 2026

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 202011 August 2026

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 202011 August 2026

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 202011 August 2026

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 202011 August 2026

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 202011 August 2026

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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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Panic at the (Cell’s) Depot

23 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Sam Bryce-Smith – sharing his research into changes in ‘post-code’ sequences of RNA, how it continues during the COVID-19

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MND Research News Research we fund

Identifying potential new diagnostic biomarkers in the blood

17 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 6 minutesGuest researcher blog post about the recently published paper on the identification of potential new biomarkers in the blood, in the journal Brain Communications. Written

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Healthcare MND Research News

Rapid development of the Telehealth in MND (TiM) Platform

9 June 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Liam Knox: My name is Liam Knox and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate who has recently joined Dr

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Healthcare MND Research Research we fund

Online tool to support CALM – Coping and Living with MND

29 May 202011 August 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Cathryn Pinto: I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton and my PhD project (titled CALM –

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