Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are delighted to announce that Dr Arpan Mehta has been appointed as our latest Lady Edith Wolfson Fellow, jointly funded by the MND Association
Tag: C9ORF72
Reading Time: 4 minutesEach year, the MND Association dedicates the month of June to raising MND awareness. This year, we focus on the eyes – in most people
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association are funding Prof Kevin Talbot, Dr Ruxandra Dafinca (née Mutihac) and colleagues at the University of Oxford, who are investigating the link
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield have uncovered a new function of the C9orf72 protein. A paper
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn previous research Prof Kevin Talbot and colleagues at the University of Oxford began to understand more about how the C9orf72 gene defect causes human
Reading Time: 2 minutesBackground to C9orf72 toxicity We know that damage to C9orf72 (both the gene and the protein it makes) is a crucial step in why some
Reading Time: 2 minutesA team at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience are creating a zebrafish model to study the C9orf72 gene mutation in MND, and work out
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhD student Emma Smith has recently started the second year of her MND Association-funded research project at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTRAN) in
Reading Time: 2 minutesMistakes in the C9orf72 gene are the most common cause of inherited MND, and can be linked to about 40% of all cases. Now that