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New fellowship awarded to further our understanding of RNA in MND

1 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Pietro Fratta (University College London) received his initial Training Fellowship through the MND Association/ Medical Research Council (MRC) Lady Edith Wolfson Programme in 2010.

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MND Association joins as a Founding Partner of the Neurodegeneration Medicines Acceleration Program

18 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver since the G8 summit on Dementia less than a year ago there has been a huge upsurge in international research activity in the field.

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Toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

7 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association and Alzheimer’s Research UK-funded researchers from University College London have identified that toxic proteins may cause motor neurones to die in C9orf72 MND

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Human Motor Neurones

19 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesDr Jakub Scaber is a Medical Research Council (MRC)/  MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow who works in Professor Kevin Talbot’s Laboratory at the

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Using induced pluripotent stem cells to further our understanding of MND

18 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesDr Jakub Scaber from the University of Oxford is our newest Medical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow. He is investigating

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Matrin 3 gene identified

1 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from our ’year of hope’ appeal last month an international team of researchers, including two funded by the MND Association, have identified mutations

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MND Association fellowships awarded to promising clinicians | 2013 | MND Association

28 January 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo MND clinicians have been awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) /MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellowships to help advance our understanding of MND

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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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