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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 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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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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