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Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

20 June 202520 June 2025 Eleanor Green

Understanding the ‘hidden middle’ of cognitive change in MND

11 June 202511 June 2025 Mandy Spencer

MIROCALS: breaking down the trial results

9 May 202512 May 2025 Research Information Team

Improving Care at Home: A New Study into Complex Homecare in MND (CHiMND)

1 May 20251 May 2025 Gen Temple

Symposium Highlights: Cells and MND

26 March 202526 March 2025 Katy Barnes

Symposium highlights: A spotlight on glial cells in MND

19 March 202519 March 2025 Libby Moody
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

ANXA11 – another gene closer to understanding ALS

4 May 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA new research paper has been published today in the Science Translational Medicine journal, describing a new gene implicated in developing MND. What is this gene

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

What goes wrong with electrical signalling in MND?

21 April 201720 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast year, we introduced a PhD Studentship that we are funding at the University of St Andrews. Under the supervision of Dr Gareth Miles and

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Epi Epi Epi, Oi Oi Oi

13 April 201717 July 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMention the word Epidemiology and instantly my mind conjures up the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in America being swarmed by zombies or men in

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Exploring the interaction between TDP-43 and RNA

5 April 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn light of the upcoming Biomedical Research Advisory Panel meeting happening on Friday 7 April that will discuss which new research projects the MND Association will fund,

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MND Research

What is the deal with magnetic fields?

30 March 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recently published paper exploring the connection between occupational risk factors and MND has sparked lots of interest, especially by the media. The study in

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Funding for Gut-sy MND research announced

29 March 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday the Reta Lila Weston Trust announced that they will be funding Dr Nikhil Sharma and colleagues at the Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre (LWENC)

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Healthcare MND Research

New research projects agreed to help improve palliative and end of life care

22 March 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesToday we announced the results of an exciting new funding partnership with Marie Curie. Together we will be co-funding three research grants that help to

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

New urine-based biomarker opens a gate to improved tracking of MND

23 February 201729 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesResearchers from the Flinders University, Australia and University of Miami have discovered a new protein that can act as a biomarker to track disease progression

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Healthcare MND Research

Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND (FaTHoM)

20 February 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesScientists from the University of Oxford have set up ‘Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND’ (FaTHoM), an initiative to bring together the community of

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund Symposium

Focus on the research presented in posters in Dublin

29 December 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOver 100 talks were given at this month’s International Symposium on ALS/MND in Dublin. There were also over 450 posters of research being presented too.

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