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Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi wins prestigious prize

18 April 201628 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesHuge congratulations to Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi for winning the prestigious Sheila Essey Award at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) research conference taking place in Vancouver, Canada. Professor

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Looking for MND genes: Project MinE update

17 March 201616 February 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutesProject MinE is an international genetics project that is analysing DNA from people with MND in detail. For the majority of people with MND, the disease

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Buckets more research – some of our plans for the Ice Bucket Challenge money

12 February 201520 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesToday’s announcement of the difference the ALS / MND ice bucket challenge has made included a number of areas of research investment. You’ll be hearing

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On the seventh day of Christmas MND research gave to me: Seven research strategy themes

31 December 201419 April 2022

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

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Very ‘ice’ research

22 August 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe ALS #icebucketchallenge, which started in America, has now well and truly hit the UK! The social media craze has seen thousands of people getting

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Project-MinE

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBarbara Thuss is project co-ordinator for Project MinE, an international initiative with the aim of sequencing at least 15,000 MND genomes. We announced earlier today that the

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The UK Whole Genome Sequencing project

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesDr Samantha Price is the Research Information Co-ordinator at the MND Association. As well as organising the ‘blog a day’ during MND Awareness Month she

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