The MND Association’s 36th International Symposium on ALS/MND has finished!  

We hope you’ve enjoyed the news throughout.   

As we say goodbye, we invite you join us again at the 37th International Symposium on ALS/MND.

In the meantime, there is loads more information about MND research, trials we’re funding and updates from across the world on our website. 

That’s it – the closing session has finished and delegates are heading home.  

The enthusiasm here hasn’t wavered and, to finish up, we’ve picked out our highlights from the closing session. Read about our highlights.

The winners of this year’s poster prizes have just been announced. 

The poster prize was launched in 2013 to celebrate early career MND researchers. Before the event, a shortlist of posters is chosen for judging during the Symposium by a panel of MND research and healthcare experts. 

This year’s clinical poster prizes go to Kelly Duffy from the University of Minnesota and Christian Steenkjaer from Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark. The biomedical poster prizes go to Ken Ning from Cedars Sinai Medical Center and Shohei Sakai from Nagoya University. 

Huge congratulations to both of them and to all the runners up! 

We’re now into the last afternoon of this global, international meeting of MND research leaders. 

Earlier, in the session on therapeutic strategies and treatment approaches, we heard seven talks about new therapies being developed and new ways to find possible treatments. We’ve done a deeper dive since then - read our blog below for more.