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

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships: looking to the present!

22 August 202522 August 2025 Eleanor Green

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships: looking to the past!

20 August 202520 August 2025 Eleanor Green
Text reads: Celebrating 10 years of our non-clinical fellowship programme

Celebrating 10 years of our Non-Clinical Fellowships!

18 August 202522 August 2025 Eleanor Green

Making Gene Therapies Smarter and Safer

28 July 202528 July 2025 Gen Temple

MND EnCouRage UK 2025: Encouraging the future leaders of MND research

22 July 202523 July 2025 Eleanor Green

MND EnCouRage UK: Looking back at four years of supporting the next generation of MND researchers

14 July 202514 July 2025 Katy Barnes
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

University of Bath research shows how angiogenin affects motor neurone survival

10 October 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesPublished in the prestigious journal Nature Communications and funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Bath researchers looked closely at the structure of 11 mutated

Read More
Healthcare MND Research Research we fund

Dr Chris McDermott talks about his research at our Annual Conference

26 September 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis year’s Annual Conference research talk was given by Dr Chris McDermott and focused on his research at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTraN).

Read More
MND Research

Attracting Promising Research – Calling for Project Grant Applications

13 September 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesAutumn is fast approaching which means it’s time to open our online summary application form for our next round of research grant applications. This round

Read More
MND Research News Research we fund

New fellowship explores how C9ORF72 causes MND

3 September 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Johnathan Cooper-Knock from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has been awarded with the fifth Medical Research Council (MRC)/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson

Read More
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND News

EPHA4 gene influences survival in MND

30 August 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn international research group spanning seven countries and including 23 researchers has identified a gene that modifies survival in MND. The gene, called EPHA4 was identified through

Read More
MND Research Symposium

Preparing for the windy city: Symposium update

15 August 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery year we are responsible, as an Association, for organising the BIGGEST international conference event of the year on MND. The 23rd International Symposium on

Read More
MND Research

Introductory blog post: Samantha Price

24 July 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesI have recently joined the Motor Neurone Disease Association as a part-time ‘Research Information Co-ordinator’ and this blog post is a little bit about my

Read More
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Profilin 1 identified as a cause of inherited MND

17 July 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn MND causing gene called profilin 1 has been identified as the cause of about two percent of cases of inherited MND. This finding provides new insights

Read More
Get involved with research MND Research

The social and educational effects of caring for a parent with MND

20 June 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast year, we helped Olly Clabburn to advertise an opportunity to take part in his dissertation research project on our website and in our monthly membership

Read More
Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Irish angiogenin research leads to promising results

1 June 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesAngiogenin was discovered as a cause of MND for a small number of families affected by the inherited form of MND in 2006. Since then,

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 60 61 62 … 76 Next

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