Skip to content
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Email

MND Research Blog

Taking you behind the scenes of MND research

  • Home
  • About this blog
    • About us
    • How to use this blog
      • Comments policy
  • Blog Categories
    • Research we fund
    • Treatments
      • Clinical Trials
      • Unproven treatments
    • Causes and disease mechanisms
    • Markers of Disease Progression
    • Models of MND
    • Healthcare
    • Symposium
      • 35th Symposium: Montreal
      • 34th Symposium: Basel
  • Back to Basics
  • Glossary

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

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
Markers of Disease Progression MND Research News Symposium

Neurofilaments show promise as biomarker candidates for MND

6 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesSaturday afternoon saw the 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND expand from two to three sessions running in parallel. Times have changed from the early years of

Read More
Healthcare MND Research News Symposium

Assistive technology and the power of voice

5 December 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutesOur general election campaign for 2015 is featured around communication because we believe that nobody should have to lose their voice to MND. The afternoon

Read More
MND Research Symposium

Hairpins and MND

5 December 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the summer I travelled over the Healy mountain Pass in Ireland – my memory of the drive is lots of hairpin bends. Fast forward

Read More
MND Research Symposium

Science behind the picture – the poster session

5 December 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter seeing the works of art on the wall – I wonder if the people in the picture will be inspired to buy a poster

Read More
Clinical Trials Symposium Treatments

What is needed to advance a drug candidate into clinical trials?

5 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 25th International Symposium on ALS/MND began today in Brussels, Belgium. More than 900 delegates joined the opening session to hear Dr Alfred Sandrock from

Read More
Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND Research we fund Symposium

A taste of Brussels…

21 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 4 November, we welcomed two of our funded researchers to our offices in Northampton. Ruxandra Mutihac and Matt Gabel gave us a ‘taste’ of what’s to come for

Read More
MND Research News Treatments

MND Association joins as a Founding Partner of the Neurodegeneration Medicines Acceleration Program

18 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver since the G8 summit on Dementia less than a year ago there has been a huge upsurge in international research activity in the field.

Read More
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund

Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesPublished in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used

Read More
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND Research we fund

Our DNA Bank: the times they are a changing…

28 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis autumn sees an exciting new development in the MND Association’s DNA Bank. Researchers can now use the samples within it to understand why motor

Read More
MND Research Research we fund

The importance of tissue in MND research

25 October 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Robin Highley from the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), which is based at the University of Sheffield, has written a special ‘guest blog’

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 45 46 47 … 76 Next

Follow us on Twitter/X

Follow @mndresearch

Useful Links

  • MND Association Website
  • International Symposium
  • MND Clinical Studies Group

The official blog of the

Copyright © 2025 MND Research Blog - MND Association. All rights reserved. Registered Charity no. 294354