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Working to defeat MND

Motor Neurone Disease Australia is the national voice representing all Australians who share the vision of a world without MND.

Drawing on 35 years of experience, MND Australia works with a national network of State MND Associations to advocate, educate and raise awareness. Our goal is to empower Australians impacted by MND to live better for longer.

Until there is a cure, MND Australia’s research arm, MND Research Australia, will promote and fund the best research with the greatest chance of making MND treatable.

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News

13/10/2020 -

Response to the federal Budget 2020-2021

While MND Australia welcomes the much needed investments in aged care, health, disability & research handed down in the Budget, we believe that significant further funding is still required in these sectors.

8/10/2020 -

A new inflammatory pathway in MND

A recent publication by MNDRA-funded Melbourne researchers has identified an immune pathway that may play a key role in the neuroinflammation seen in MND and present a novel target for developing new treatments.

They found that by blocking an immune sensor called STING, they could dramatically prevent inflammation from MND patient cells, paving the way for a new class of drugs to be developed for people with neurodegenerative disorders, such as MND.

$25 Million, 25 Milestones: Changing the future of MND

Spotlight on MND

What is MND?

Motor neurone disease (MND) is known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in many parts of the world. MND is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells controlling the voluntary muscles undergo degeneration and die.... read more