Euan MacDonald discussing news with a colleague

News

Find out about what's been happening in the trial.

The Poole MND-SMART team. Left to right: Dr Charles Hillier, Consultant Neurologist University Hospitals Dorset & local Principal Investigator for MND-SMART; Maxine Ashton, Senior Clinicals trial Assistant; Judith Dube, Neurology Research Nurse

Poole joins MND-SMART

May 2023: We are delighted that University Hospitals Dorset in Poole is now recruiting participants to MND-SMART.

The four members of the Craigavon site team

Northern Ireland joins MND-SMART

Mar 2023: We are delighted that The Southern Health and Social Care Trust, Craigavon, is now open as a recruiting site for MND-SMART

A picture of Emily Beswick against a background of a countryside lane

PhD success for early-career researcher

Feb 2023: Euan MacDonald Centre PhD student successfully defends her PhD thesis.

Picture of the front page to the BMJ Open article

New publication: How we selected drugs for the MND-SMART clinical trial

Feb 2023: We have published the detailed strategy for selection of the first two drugs in the MND-SMART clinical trial.

Dr Arpan Mehta presenting MND-SMART slides at the CURE-Neurological Diseases symposium in Paris, February 2023

CURE-ND Clinical Workshop

Feb 2023: Dr Arpan Mehta was the winner of the Best Talk Award at this year's CURE-ND symposium.

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Statistical analysis plan published

Jan 2023: Scientific publication describing the MND-SMART statistical analysis plan

Doddie with Euan MacDonald Centre researchers (L-R) Rachel Kline, Alison Thomson and Natalie Courtney at the Centre’s fundraiser ‘Just a Sports Quiz’ in 2017.

Doddie Weir Statement

Nov 2022: A tribute to Doddie Weir OBE

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Autumn 2022 Newsletter

Nov 2022: Our latest newsletter is now available

Picture of Rachel Dakin smiling with her poster behind her at the conference

International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference 2022

Oct 2022: Earlier this month our trial manager Rachel Dakin and Clinical Fellow Charis Wong attended the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference in Harrogate.

graphic showing trial sites in the UK with an update on numbers in the trial: 400 particpants and 17 trial sites

MND-SMART enrols 400th participant

Oct 2022: Four hundred people living with MND have now joined MND-SMART.

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Making drugs for MND-SMART

Aug 22: Update on the manufacturing of drugs for the MND-SMART trial.

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MND-SMART protocol published

Jul 2022: The full MND-SMART trial protocol, containing details of the trial design, has now been published.