Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi everyone! Ever wondered who is behind some of the research blogs that you read? It’s the research information team. It is not just the research blog of course – we are actively involved in the MND research twitter (@MNDResearch), our newsletters (the research monthly and the researcher), the International Symposium and the research section…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Today marks 10 years since the MND Association’s research blog first started, making it our ‘blogiversary’. It officially began with a welcome post from our very own director, Dr Brian Dickie, which talked about the main purpose of the blog – to share what’s going on in the world of MND research and give you…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve just joined the MND Association’s Research Development Team as a ‘Research Information Co-ordinator’.
You’ll probably see me across the blog, from writing posts on exciting updates in MND research to replying to your comments, so I thought it would be nice to introduce myself and a bit about my background (including how I used ladybirds in neurodegenerative diseases).
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have recently joined the Motor Neurone Disease Association as a part-time ‘Research Information Co-ordinator’ and this blog post is a little bit about my background and how this benefits my role within the Association. In my role I work in the Research Development Team understanding and interpreting current research into Motor Neurone Disease (MND).…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Next month will see the start of three new Association-funded research projects that will each move us closer to achieving some of the key targets set out in our research strategy. They involve recently discovered genetic causes of MND, new disease models and a novel way of measuring the progress of the disease – all very exciting stuff!…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As the newest recruit to the Research Development Team, I have been asked to let everyone know a bit more about me. Previously I was a Medicinal Chemist working for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for almost 20 years. In that time I “survived” two corporate mergers and worked at three different research sites. For almost a third…
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am optimistic every time I prepare a talk when I look for something new to say about advances in research. Since the discovery of the TDP43 mutation in 2008, I have become spoilt for choice! Every year I have been able to talk about new genetic discoveries to the local groups, branches and healthcare…
Reading Time: < 1 minute After being asked to write about why I am a research optimist, I tried to think about the achievements in MND research. After attending the Care Centre directors meeting I have seen that there is not just biomedical, lab based research going on, there is also a lot of clinical research going on within our Care Centres. This…
Reading Time: < 1 minute MND does not respect national boundaries and neither does our research efforts. There are so many researchers, clinicians and health and social care professionals from around the world who dedicate their whole careers to unlocking the secrets of MND. What makes me optimistic about research, are the people who push research to the next level.…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Next week is MND awareness week (19 June to 27 June). Awareness week sees the national launch of our brand new awareness campaign called Incurable Optimism, led by Patrick Joyce who has MND. To celebrate the launch of our new campaign, each member of the research development team will be posting why they are incurably optimistic about MND research…
