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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
MND Research News Research we fund

Another piece in the MND Jigsaw..

4 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearch published yesterday on 3 June 2014 in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, highlights key insights into how the protein TDP-43 may cause motor neurones to

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A research perspective on the MND Association spring conferences

4 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing on from Peter Bickley, Dr Ruxandra Mutihac volunteered to present her research at the Newport Spring Conference earlier this year. Here she gives an insight

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Peter Bickley – my MND research blog

3 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week is Volunteering week and we’re celebrating volunteering on our MND Research blog for our ‘blog a day’. Peter Bickley is an MND Association

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Mathematics and MND

2 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing on from physics and X-rays; Matt Gabel is an MND Association PhD student at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School who is using mathematics to

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X-rays for MND research

2 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Gareth Wright, based at the University of Liverpool, is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the MND Association. His research is all about using physics

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Cell Culture Work in Motor Neuron Disease Research

1 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing on from baking, and understanding the roles of genes and proteins, Helena Chaytow (Royal Holloway) explains about her research. Helena is an MND Association-funded

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MND Awareness Month: Blog a day… coming soon!

23 May 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesJune is MND Awareness Month and this year our campaign is featured around the theme ‘VOICE’. Awareness month is our opportunity to raise awareness of

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Depression: asking the right questions

14 May 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesA new national survey about depression has just been launched. The MND Association is supporting this new priority setting partnership as we would like to know what

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Tirasemtiv Phase II clinical trial – results

29 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe top-line results from the Cytokinetics Inc Phase IIb clinical trial of Tirasemtiv were announced last week. Following this announcement, detailed results were then presented

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The Medical Innovation Bill

29 April 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutesA lot has been happening in terms of research policy at the moment, from the announcement of the European adaptive licensing pilot to the Government’s Early Access to

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