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How can biomarkers be used in clinical trials in MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What are clinical trials?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What biomarkers do we have for MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What are biomarkers and why do we need them?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

What is genetic MND?

8 July 20258 July 2025 Research Information Team

Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

20 June 202520 June 2025 Eleanor Green
Causes and disease mechanisms Clinical Trials Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Treatments

How animals are helping to improve our understanding of MND

26 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes‘From antibiotics and insulin to blood transfusions and treatments for cancer or HIV, virtually every medical achievement in the past century has depended directly or

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

FaTHoM 2: UK-leading MND clinicians on inherited MND

20 June 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter its successful premiere in 2017, the University of Oxford organised another meeting of people affected by inherited MND, called ‘Families for the Treatment of

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Microbiome: is the answer in our guts?

31 May 20193 August 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesExploring the link between our guts and our general health is becoming increasingly popular. Studies of people with various physical and mental health conditions suggest

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Clinical Trials MND Research Treatments

Tofersen: antisense oligonucleotide drug shows promising results in Phase 1/2 trial

7 May 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recent press release by the pharmaceutical company Biogen reported preliminary results from an ongoing clinical trial investigating a form of precision therapy in people

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Clinical Trials Healthcare MND Research

Paving the way towards better clinical trials

3 April 20198 April 2022

Reading Time: 10 minutes“The annals of ALS clinical trials is strewn with failed studies. Only two out of more than 70 clinical trials have been positive, and even

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Clinical Trials Get involved with research MND Research Treatments

Drug repurposing – harnessing the positive side effects of ‘old school’ drugs

27 March 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIs it possible that a drug that treats congestive heart failure could improve respiration in people with MND? Or that a drug used to treat

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Professional football and MND – looking at the evidence

8 March 201922 June 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesLast year professional football players, Len Johnrose and Stephen Darby, announced they’d been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). This follows previous announcements from other

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

GLT8D1: new gene identifies novel disease mechanism

28 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMND Association-supported clinical fellow Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, and a PhD student Tobias Moll, report mutations in a new MND gene which has uncovered a previously

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

Kennedy’s Disease: focus on muscle damage reveals key biomarker

27 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesFindings from the largest biomarker study of people with Kennedy’s Disease, published in the journal Neurology, found a predictive biomarker to help in differential diagnosis

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MND Research News

Energy and metabolism in MND cells answer the burning question

11 February 201920 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesDespite the winter chill, there is a warm fuzzy feeling today with the news of a paper published in the journal ‘Brain’ by an MND

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