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Carol Birks | 29/03/2018
The Enemy Within an Australian Story featuring MND researcher Associate Professor Justin Yerbury was screened on ABC TV last Monday night.
Carol Birks | 13/03/2018
We have recently re-structured our small team and introduced two new part time positions. Newly created opportunities exist for an experienced, dynamic and passionate donor and events manager and an experienced accounts and administration officer to join the MND Australia team.
Carol Birks | 13/03/2018
“Nina’s” celebrate the contribution and commitment demonstrated by Nina Buscombe to improve services, management and research for people with motor neurone disease through travel, training and conference attendance. The Award is presented and administered by MND Victoria and is intended to fund attendance at training, conferences or seminars within Australia or overseas.
The training, conference or seminar must have content that will help to improve the quality of services, management or research for people living with motor neurone disease.
| 7/03/2018
The MND Research Institute of Australia is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018-2020 MNDRIA PhD Scholarship Top-up Grants, the Susie Harris Travel Fellowship 2018, and the Jenny and Graham Lang Collaboration Travel Grant 2018.
Carol Birks | 1/02/2018
MND Australia has made a pre-budget submission to the Australian Government in advance of the 2018 to 2019 Federal Budget
Carol Birks | 16/01/2018
Take a look at our overview of the annual ALS/MND meetings held in Boston from the 4 to 9 December and hosted by Alliance members ALS TDI and ALS Hope. Includes links to meeting presentations, blogs and more...
| 21/12/2017
A Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of a drug called Tecfidera in people with MND will begin in Australia in February 2018.
| 19/12/2017
The latest issue of Advance is online featuring highlights from recent MND research events, an overview of The Lighthouse Project clinical trial and an interview with Drs Shyuan Ngo and Frederik Steyn.