Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I started my job at the Association just four years ago we were funding 19 research projects and studentships. Researchers were using animal models
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Wednesday I attended the MND care centre directors meeting. This is where all of the care centre directors, care centre co-ordinators, our regional care development
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNext week is MND awareness week (19 June to 27 June). Awareness week sees the national launch of our brand new awareness campaign called Incurable Optimism,
Reading Time: 3 minutesA study, part funded by the MND Association and led by Prof Chris Shaw from King’s College London has been published in the June edition
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the end of last week, we learnt that the Brain Research Trust (BRT) planned on appealing for donations on BBC Radio 4 for their
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Symposium programme begins to take shape
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOver the last month the symposium programme committee, including myself and Brian, have been busy reading the abstracts submitted for presentation at the International Symposium
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Brian said earlier this week, the news that we are now funding an international stem cell project went national and indeed international through a
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s Friday afternoon and I’m just back from a press briefing in London, where we were unveiling an exciting new stem cell research programme. I’ve
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the pharmaceutical giant, is now recruiting for a clinical trial–often referred to as the NOGO trial. The drug being tested is called ‘GSK1223249’ which isn’t the
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago Professor Karen Morrison rang me. Karen is the director of the Birmingham care centre. She is also one of the principal