Reading Time: < 1 minute As you may be aware, due to the coronavirus situation we postponed our Early Career Researcher Workshop and MND Conference which was all set to run in June. We had a fantastic response to the event, which was a two-day educational event to bring together Early Career Researchers (ECRs) investigating MND and our community.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Soon after 8 medical students at the University of Southampton volunteered for the Motor Neurone Disease Association (with their local Southampton and Winchester branch) and created an MND Association MedSoc group at the University, they decided to organise an MND conference in February 2020 to raise interest amongst medical students and other healthcare professionals. Among…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Conferences and symposia are a crucial part of the research world – not only for the amount of knowledge that is communicated to large audiences but also for the exchange of ideas on a more inter-personal level. Novel ideas are created there as well establishment of collaborations that might lead to new research projects and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sadie’s recent post on the emerging partnership between Peakdale Molecular and the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience prompted me to say a little about last month’s Drug Discovery Workshop, held in Washington DC and organised our friends at the ALS Association. I was fortunate to be invited along to this workshop, which brought together over 100…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hot on the heels of Kelly’s posting on Tuesday on the new MRI findings by researchers at Oxford, the same group was yesterday hosting the 1st Neuroimaging Symposium in ALS/MND – a three-day conference, co sponsored by the MND Association, bringing together neurologists, physicists and psychologists from ten different countries across the world. I attended the opening…
