Reading Time: < 1 minute Over the last month the symposium programme committee, including myself and Brian, have been busy reading the abstracts submitted for presentation at the International Symposium on ALS/MND. The meeting will be taking place in Orlando in December. I chose to read my pile 353 abstracts in one go (apart from a further 20 late abstracts).…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As Brian said earlier this week, the news that we are now funding an international stem cell project went national and indeed international through a number of different websites and papers. Getting such cover was fantastic and we’re still receiving enquiries from people wanting to know more information! At the same time we’ve also been…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The deadline for submitting abstracts for the International Symposium on ALS/MND has now officially passed and this year, 354 abstracts were submitted to us for consideration from a total of 25 countries. However, the deadline is by no means the end of the journey of the abstracts – it is only the beginning! This morning…
Reading Time: < 1 minute MND researchers from around the world who are hoping to present their work at this year’s International Symposium on ALS/MND are (we hope!) preparing to submit to us brief summaries of their proposed presentations. These summaries, known as abstracts, have been trickling in since March. Based on the form of earlier years, the trickle will…
