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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?

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What are clinical trials?

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What biomarkers do we have for MND?

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What are biomarkers and why do we need them?

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What is genetic MND?

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MND Research Symposium

Welcome to the International Symposium on ALS/MND in Dublin

7 December 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday marks the beginning of the next year in MND research around the world, or at least it certainly feels like that! It is the

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MND Research Models of MND Research we fund

Using stem cell technology to understand more about how MND and FTD develop

26 October 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association are funding Prof Kevin Talbot, Dr Ruxandra Dafinca (née Mutihac) and colleagues at the University of Oxford, who are investigating the link

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Research we fund

New fellowship to investigate muscle fasciculations

5 October 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring Awareness month in June we reported on the work of Dr James Bashford at King’s College London, exploring new ways of measuring muscle fasciculations

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AMBRoSIA – our biggest ever research project

12 September 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe AMBRoSIA (A Multicentre Biomarker Resource Strategy In ALS) project is our biggest, most ambitious research undertaking to date. The project funding began in August,

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Could a Diabetes drug be useful in treating MND?

2 August 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we announce a new collaboration for a preclinical research study on the diabetes drug liraglutide, in the hope that positive results will lead to

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Clinical Trials MND Research

ALS/MND Clinical Trial Guidelines: your opportunity to comment!

29 July 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesA few months ago we wrote an article about the ALS Clinical Trials Workshop which took place in Virginia, USA. Since then the Guidelines Working

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New genetic discoveries tell us more about what causes MND – Part 2

27 July 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo sets of MND genetic results were published yesterday. One of these results was about the importance of a new gene called NEK1. The second

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New genetic discoveries tell us more about what causes MND – Part 1

26 July 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday some exciting news about the genetics of MND was published in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. The results come in two research papers published

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How faulty proteins disrupt waste recycling and disposal inside nerve cells

1 July 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield have uncovered a new function of the C9orf72 protein. A paper

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Motor neurone signalling and the effects of RNA in MND

30 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Pietro Fratta completed his first MRC-MND Association Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2014. Last year he was awarded a new £1.16 million Clinician Scientist

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