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Meet Katie, the newest member of the Research Team

4 August 20265 August 2026 Katie

MND EnCouRage UK 2026: celebrating five years of supporting early career researchers

17 July 202617 July 2026 Libby

FaTHoM day 2026: Supporting families affected by inherited MND and FTD       

3 July 202630 July 2026 Eleanor

Clinical trials to look out for in 2026

9 April 20265 June 2026 Eleanor

Catching up with the 2024 Poster prize candidates

4 March 202611 August 2026 Kiran

Celebrating Early Career MND Researchers through the International Symposium on ALS/MND Poster Prize

23 February 202611 August 2026 Kiran
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Symposium

The causes of MND – what about head injury?

6 December 201411 August 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesHead injury has been a hot topic in the media in relation to MND. I also receive a number of enquiries from people living with

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Heads up! The Sheffield Support Snood

6 December 201411 August 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the second day of the symposium Association-funded researcher, Dr Chris McDermott, presented his highly anticipated research on a new neck support for people living

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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

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Assistive technology and the power of voice

5 December 201411 August 2026

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

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Hairpins and MND

5 December 201411 August 2026

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

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Science behind the picture – the poster session

5 December 201411 August 2026

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

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

5 December 201411 August 2026

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

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A taste of Brussels…

21 November 201411 August 2026

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

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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.

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Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201411 August 2026

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

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