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Symposium Spotlight: Biomarkers in MND – improving drug development and clinical trial design

Symposium Spotlight: Biomarkers in MND – improving drug development and clinical trial design

Reading Time: 4 minutes Diagnosing disease faster, accurately predicting disease progression, assessing the ability of a new drug to reach its target – I think we’d all agree that these three things are essential requirements for treating all diseases. But how can we achieve this? The answer may lie in biomarkers. In his plenary talk at last year’s International…

Should routine genetic testing be considered for all cases of MND?

Should routine genetic testing be considered for all cases of MND?

Reading Time: 9 minutes A paper arising from research carried out at the University of Sheffield as part of the AMBRoSIA biobank, and in collaboration with the international Project MinE gene-hunting consortium, was recently published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Researchers propose that a test for the most common MND genes could be offered to all…

Virtual Symposium: Results from the Phase 3 clinical trial of NurOwn

Virtual Symposium: Results from the Phase 3 clinical trial of NurOwn

Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog is part of the ‘Virtual Highlights’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters presented at the Virtual 31st International Symposium on ALS/MND. This presentation was part of Session 3: Clinical Trials Co-presented by Dr Merit Cudkowicz, from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General…

Tissue biomarkers: Highlights from Glasgow

Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters presented at the 29th International Symposium on ALS/MND. Around the globe, teams are working to find tissue biomarkers for MND and there some promising candidates coming through, some of…