Reading Time: 2 minutes Developing disease models is important for furthering our understanding of MND and allows researchers to screen potential new drugs for a beneficial effect. Moving a promising ‘nearly drug’ from the lab to being tested in people is known as ‘translational research’. Dr Richard Mead was awarded the Kenneth Snowman/MND Association Lectureship in Translational Neuroscience in…
Reading Time: 4 minutes 332 delegates, 135 posters, 41 talks, one goal: to cure ALS The European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ENCALS) was set up to find a cure for ALS/MND by working collaboratively across 35 research centres (universities and hospitals) throughout Europe. The 14th meeting of ENCALS took place in Milan between 19-21 May…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Medical Research Council (MRC)/ MND Association Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, is based at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), at the University of Sheffield. The Tour de France ends up in Sheffield a week today, so to get you into the cycling spirit, John blogs about the Sheffield to Leuven…
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…
