Motor neurone disease

A new project by researchers in Edinburgh aims to identify combinations of existing drugs that could be used together to treat motor neurone disease (MND). Led by Prof Siddharthan Chandran, the £3.3 million project is funded by the medical research charity LifeArc, as part of an ongoing partnership between the charity and the UK DRI. […]

Six UK universities have collectively received £4.25 million as part of a collaborative project aimed at finding new treatments for motor neurone disease (MND).  The MND Collaborative Partnership was launched by LifeArc, MND Association, MND Scotland and My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, alongside government bodies Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care […]

Medical research charity LifeArc and the MND Association have established a £1 million joint translational research fund to support researchers developing treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Despite recent advances, there is still no effective clinical treatment for MND. Each organisation is contributing £500,000 to the fund. Researchers from across the UK and the Republic […]