Reading Time: 2 minutes Scott Maloney is the Association’s MND Connect Team Leader. Following Alun’s volunteering roles, Scott explains more about MND Connect, how they can help, and how they work with the Research Development team. About MND Connect The MND Connect Helpline is the ‘frontline’ of the MND Association. They take and answer calls and emails from anyone…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Following on from our ’year of hope’ appeal last month an international team of researchers, including two funded by the MND Association, have identified mutations in the Matrin 3 (MATR3) gene as a cause of the rare inherited form of MND. Medical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow Dr Pietro…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr Richard Mead based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) at the University of Sheffield has been awarded the Kenneth Snowman-MND Association Lectureship in Translational Neuroscience. The five-year Kenneth Snowman-MND Association lectureship is aimed to embed preclinical expertise in motor neurone disease (MND) models within SITraN as a national resource. Our Director of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes With over 140 million active users Twitter has grown up a lot since it arrived in 2006. This means that Twitter can be an extremely powerful tool for engaging, influencing and reaching out to a wide range of audiences across the world. Twitter is a social network (like Facebook and Google+) which allows you to…
Reading Time: < 1 minute It is that time of year again when we open our Online Summary Application Form for our next round of PhD studentship applications, for projects starting in October 2014. The deadline for summary applications is Friday 3 May 2013. Last Time Our last round saw an all time record number of studentship applications. We received…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Funded by the MND Association, international researchers have used stem cell technology to learn more about the relationship between motor neurones and their support cells. These findings highlight the potential of stem cell technology as a tool to create new human ‘in a dish’ cellular models of disease to learn more about the causes of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The phrase ‘Share nicely’ is one that I associate with children sharing their toys, sweets and perhaps even Wii time. However, it works well in a research context too. A steady momentum has been building of new ways to share, so I wanted to write a post to highlight them. For the last 23 years…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We’re pleased to announce that Dr Martin Turner has been awarded with the European Network for the Cure of ALS (ENCALS) Young Investigators Award 2012. Dr Turner was awarded with the MRC/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellowship in 2008 for his study to identify biomarkers in MND (called BioMOx). Since then, Dr…
