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Autumn 2022 Newsletter

Nov 2022: Our latest newsletter is now available

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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.

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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.

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European Network to Cure ALS (ENCALS) annual meeting 2022

June 2022: MND-SMART researchers attended the ENCALS 2022 conference.

Bringing MND Research to Wessex

Apr 2022: Dr Ashwin Pinto (Principal Investigator for the Southampton trial centre) shares the background on bringing MND-SMART to the Southampton MND Care Centre.