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31st Symposium: Virtual Clinical Trials MND Research News

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

15 December 202019 January 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Virtual Highlights’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News

Could MND be treated by HIV drugs?

17 July 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently published results from the open-label Lighthouse trial investigating safety of the drug Triumeq in people with MND revealed the treatment was safe and ready

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Clinical Trials Healthcare MND Research

Paving the way towards better clinical trials

3 April 20198 April 2022

Reading Time: 10 minutes“The annals of ALS clinical trials is strewn with failed studies. Only two out of more than 70 clinical trials have been positive, and even

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Symposium

Tissue biomarkers: Highlights from Glasgow

4 January 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Treatments

MND research around the world

15 August 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last decade, the MND Association has invested millions in research within the UK and across the world. We are a leader in the

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

AMBRoSIA and NECTAR – Make your mark on MND

18 July 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt has been almost a year since we announced that AMBRoSIA (A Multicentre Biomarker Resource Strategy In ALS) had begun to recruit participants (read the

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28th Symposium: Boston 2017 MND Research Symposium

Catch up on Symposium…focus on causes and treatments

22 December 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 8 minutesFollowing on from our previous catch-up blog on clinical management talks presented at the Symposium, here is a continuation that looks at talks focusing on

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Get involved with research Markers of Disease Progression MND Research

AMBRoSIA – our biggest ever research project

12 September 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe AMBRoSIA (A Multicentre Biomarker Resource Strategy In ALS) project is our biggest, most ambitious research undertaking to date. The project funding began in August,

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

Defining disease progression in MND from MRI ‘snapshots’

26 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough conventional brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are often normal in people with MND, more sophisticated MRI techniques have shown changes in the structure

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Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Research we fund

Using surface EMG to see if fasciculations can be used as a biomarker for MND

24 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat are fasciculations? When motor neurones in the spinal cord become damaged this makes them electrically unstable, meaning they spontaneously discharge electrical impulses that cause

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