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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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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

GLT8D1: new gene identifies novel disease mechanism

28 February 201920 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesMND Association-supported clinical fellow Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, and a PhD student Tobias Moll, report mutations in a new MND gene which has uncovered a previously

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Clinical Trials MND Research News

Re-evaluating clinical trial guidelines for MND

20 May 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesTo mark International Clinical Trials Day (20 May) we reflect on the ALS Clinical Trials Guidelines workshop that took place in March. The MND Association

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund

Breaking the Human Genome Code

1 April 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesProfessor Winston Hide gave his inaugural lecture on 17 March, during Brain Awareness week, entitled ‘breaking the human genome code – opening Pandora’s box’, which you can watch

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On the seventh day of Christmas MND research gave to me: Seven research strategy themes

31 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes“On the seventh day of Christmas MND research gives to you… our SEVEN research strategy themes” It’s New Year’s eve, a time to look back

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Cycling to ENCALS – “on yer bike”

29 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesMedical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, is based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN),

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Causes and disease mechanisms

The UK MND DNA Bank 6 months on…

11 June 201420 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s been six months since the UK MND DNA Bank (DNA Bank) opened its doors to researchers around the world, so what has been happening to

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Jolly Good Fellows!

25 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 6 minutesThere’s a scene in the 1969 film Battle of Britain where Laurence Olivier, who plays the Air Chief Marshal, is in a meeting with his two

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Models of MND News

The C9orf72 mystery begins to unravel even more of its secrets

5 April 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 2011 an international team of scientists, including three MND Association-funded researchers, identified the elusive C9orf72 gene located on Chromosome 9. Since this ground-breaking discovery,

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New fellowship explores how C9ORF72 causes MND

3 September 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Johnathan Cooper-Knock from the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) has been awarded with the fifth Medical Research Council (MRC)/MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson

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