Reading Time: < 1 minute “On the eleventh day of Christmas MND research gives to you… ELEVEN members on our Biomedical Research Advisory Panel” Thanks to a record-breaking MND research grants round of over 40 applications from researchers around the world, we’ve got a busy year ahead! We’ll be reviewing all of these applications and deciding which should be funded…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr Jean Waters is a former trustee of the MND Association who is living with MND, here she blogs about what it was like being a member on our Biomedical Research Advisory Panel (BRAP) and what it was like being a trustee. A member of BRAP Like most people living with MND I have a…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This week is Volunteering week and we’re celebrating volunteering on our MND Research blog for our ‘blog a day’. Peter Bickley is an MND Association trustee and member of our Biomedical Research Advisory Panel (BRAP). Here he blogs about his role as a voluntary Trustee and what it’s like to be part of BRAP. Until…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The day finally arrived on 11 April 2014 for our biannual Biomedical Research Advisory Panel (BRAP) Meeting. This important date in our research calendar is when grant funding decisions are discussed before being put forward to our Board of Trustees for approval. But before we get to the meeting, there is a lot of preparation…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a very exciting time for us. We are again in the middle of another bumper grants round with 23 full applications received. We have received applications from researchers already known to us, new and international researchers, allowing us to further widen our researcher network. Full applications give a detailed plan of what the…
Reading Time: < 1 minute As posted recently, we are just starting our next research grant application round – and the number of summary applications received broke the record set a year ago. We received 26 applications – 5 for PhD studentships and 21 for projects (requiring more experienced scientists). These cover a wide range of areas, including genetics and…
