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 and celebrate on 2014 and our MND research achievements. It’s also a time to look to the future; in 2015 we will be funding new MND research in line with…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The MND Association has funded a number of research projects in the laboratory of Dr Frank Hirth at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His area of expertise is in using fruit flies to understand how motor neurones die in MND. There is an opportunity to read a summary of some of his work…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brain Awareness Week got off to a good start for me. Last night I attended the awards ceremony for a joint competition run by the British Library and Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC). I met many people dedicated to explaining their research to non-experts and making the research available as widely as possible. Motor neurone disease research…
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…
