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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

MND EnCouRage UK: Looking back at four years of supporting the next generation of MND researchers

14 July 202514 July 2025 Katy Barnes

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
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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Clinical Trials MND Research News Treatments Unproven treatments

Cannabis-based products for medicinal use

24 January 20199 July 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn November 2018 the Home Office released a draft Guideline scope for Cannabis-based products for medicinal use in which they announced that specialist doctors (like

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Disease mechanisms: Highlights from Glasgow

23 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Cognition and FTD: Highlights from Glasgow

21 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Rachel Boothman and Kaye Stevens This blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Clinical Trials MND Research News Treatments

What’s the story with CuATSM

15 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere has recently been a flood of news stories on the outcomes of the Australian Phase 1 clinical trial investigating Copper ATSM (CuATSM) which is

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Symposium

Tissue biomarkers: Highlights from Glasgow

4 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Psychological and emotional wellbeing: Highlights from Glasgow

20 December 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

Technology and MND: Highlights from Glasgow

18 December 20184 June 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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