Reading Time: 2 minutes Every year we are responsible, as an Association, for organising the BIGGEST international conference event of the year on MND. The 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND will return, after 16 years, to the windy city of Chicago from the 5-7 December this year. This event is one of the most exciting events in the research…
Reading Time: 5 minutes From Sunday morning to Tuesday evening last week, there was a lot of talk of MND research going on in Liverpool. The reason for this ‘hotspot’ of discussions was due to the annual meeting of an international consortium of MND researchers taking place at the University of Liverpool. The 10th International Consortium on SOD1 and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s taken a huge international collaboration, including 3 MND Association-funded scientists, to discover a genetic mistake that appears to cause almost 40% of cases of familial (inherited) MND – that’s nearly twice as many as are caused by mutations in the SOD1 gene and more than three times as many as are caused by TDP-43 and…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Our Research Strategy has recently been revised and can be downloaded from our website: http://www.mndassociation.org/document.rm?id=751. Although it can seem that MND research moves at ‘glacial’ speed, the fact that we have had to update the strategy to take into account new gene discoveries, new laboratory models of MND, advances in stem cell technology and the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes My reasons for being an ‘incurable optimist’ is the increasing amount of research being carried out and the number of researchers interested in MND and in collaborating to solve the mystery of this terrible disease. The difference now from when I started with the Association over 20 years ago (as a very young woman!)…
