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Studying the biology of MND

6 November 20256 November 2025 Research Information Team

Inspiring a New Generation of Scientists at New Scientist Live 2025

3 November 20253 November 2025 Katy Barnes
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The MND Research Journey: Beyond the Lab Bench

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team
The MND Research Journey

The MND Research Journey: Navigating the first miles

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team
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Welcome to the Lab

13 October 202513 October 2025 Research Information Team

Behind the Scenes of Peer Review

18 September 202518 September 2025 Eleanor Green
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Early Access to Medicines scheme

17 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast month the UK Government’s Department of Health announced an Early Access to Medicines Scheme. But, what is this new scheme? and what does it

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What’s all the ‘FUS’ about?

11 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesProf Vladimir Buchman (Cardiff University)’s research was selected as one of the best research studies, as decided by the journal editors, published in the Journal

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Switching the light on for MND

7 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association-funded researcher, Prof Linda Greensmith, based at University College London, together with her collaborator Dr Ivo Lieberam from Kings College London, have introduced stem

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Matrin 3 gene identified

1 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from our ’year of hope’ appeal last month an international team of researchers, including two funded by the MND Association, have identified mutations

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Understanding Spinal Muscular Atrophy: could plant derived compounds hold the key?

13 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 3 March 2014, researchers based at the University of Edinburgh published a research paper that extends our understanding of the childhood disease – Spinal

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Flying towards understanding: MND, TDP43, flies and a competition

7 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association has funded a number of research projects in the laboratory of Dr Frank Hirth at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

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TDP-43: A protein that lingers on..

4 March 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesMND Association-funded researchers from the University of Liverpool have published results in the prestigious open access journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Under the

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Improving Riluzole for MND

7 February 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesVictoria Pugh is studying for her PhD at the Universities of Bradford and Reading, which is funded by the MND Association. Under the leadership of Prof

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Application round in full Swing

29 January 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a very exciting time for us. We are again in the middle of another bumper grants round with 23 full applications received. We

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Milan 2013 symposium catch-up

20 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 24th International Symposium on ALS/MND was the most successful to date with over 950 clinicians, healthcare professionals and scientists attending the meeting in Milan.

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