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Biomarkers blog from Rob Layfield

29/05/2025

Professor Rob Layfield is an experienced motor neuron disease (MND) researcher and has been studying mechanisms involved in neurodegeneration for over 30 years. Rob and his lab have received funding from multiple agencies and charities to further their research into MND, looking at changes in proteins and the effect which this has on other cell processes, helping to move our understanding of MND forward.

MND drug trial launches in Inverness

The MND-SMART clinical trial opens its seventh UK centre in Inverness for participants across NHS Highland.

Scientists repair axons for first time

Super-charging cells helps reverse MND damage in lab experiments

Aberdeen drug trial now open

MND-SMART has launched its fifth trial centre and is now open to people with MND in the NHS Grampian area.

Travelling abroad for unproven MND treatments

Due to recent press around treatments available for MND, we are addressing the misleading statements made.

Gordon Aikman Award open for 2021

The annual £50,000 fund, for health care professionals and clinical researchers, is now open.

Landmark MND trial launches in Glasgow

The UK's biggest MND trial has opened its third recruitment centre, in Glasgow.

MND research boost

MND Scotland invests nearly £295,000 in major research boost.

Dundee drugs trial for MND opens

The groundbreaking MND clinical drugs trial is now opened to participants in Tayside.

Researchers effectively measure apathy in MND

MND Scotland-funded researchers have shown a new tool to be effective at measuring behavioural changes in MND