News
Find out about what's been happening in the trial.
PhD success for early-career researcher
Feb 2023: Euan MacDonald Centre PhD student successfully defends her PhD thesis.
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.
CURE-ND Clinical Workshop
Feb 2023: Dr Arpan Mehta was the winner of the Best Talk Award at this year's CURE-ND symposium.
Statistical analysis plan published
Jan 2023: Scientific publication describing the MND-SMART statistical analysis plan
Doddie Weir Statement
Nov 2022: A tribute to Doddie Weir OBE
Autumn 2022 Newsletter
Nov 2022: Our latest newsletter is now available
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.
MND-SMART enrols 400th participant
Oct 2022: Four hundred people living with MND have now joined MND-SMART.
Making drugs for MND-SMART
Aug 22: Update on the manufacturing of drugs for the MND-SMART trial.
MND-SMART protocol published
Jul 2022: The full MND-SMART trial protocol, containing details of the trial design, has now been published.
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.