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Breaking down the MIROCALS clinical trial results

6 December 202222 September 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe top-line results of the Modifying Immune Response and OutComes in ALS (MIROCALS) clinical trial were announced on 6 December 2022 at the 33rd International Symposium

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Cells behaving badly: what’s going wrong in immune cells in MND?

2 December 20222 December 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent paper published in the Journal Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation has revealed new insights into how immune cells behave in MND. This work, which

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Symposium Blogathon: Focus on… Plenary Speakers (Part 2)

8 November 202218 November 2022

Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog is part of our Symposium Blogathon series – where we are counting down to the 33rd International Symposium. Numbers in bold blue type

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Delving deeper into neurofilament light chain

24 June 20224 April 2025

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere is a desperate need for a biomarker for MND for both the diagnosis and demonstration of a biological effect as a result of a

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Global MND Awareness Day- Celebrating Collaboration

21 June 202221 June 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesEach year, the 21st of June marks Global MND Awareness Day and MND Charites and Associations across the world acknowledge the impact that MND has

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VALOR Biogen’s Tofersen trial: a look at the open label extension data

10 June 202217 February 2023

Reading Time: 6 minutesUpdate 21/09/2022: The results of the VALOR trial and its open label extension were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. These results give

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A ‘wee molecule’: the tiny urinary biomarker neopterin and its role in MND progression

1 April 20227 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesMy name is Stephanie Shepheard, and I am a Research Associate in the Motor Neuron Disease & Neurotrophic Research Laboratory (MND&NR Lab), Flinders Health &

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Symposium Spotlight: A closer look at IMODALS clinical trial outcomes

16 March 202216 March 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesAs the research team are starting to get stuck into planning our next International Symposium on ALS/MND we are taking a look back at some

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Update on clinical trials – part 2

26 November 20218 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is blog number 20 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond

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Update on clinical trials – part 1

25 November 20218 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is blog number 19 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond

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