Motor Neurone Disease ignited the Ice Bucket Challenge at the height of social media sharing, sparking a pile-on among mates and colleagues who were game, and raising awareness for the fatal neurodegenerative disease that sees the neurons, or nerve cells that are in the brain and spinal cord, die over time, eventually causing paralysis and death.
While, for now, a cure remains elusive, progress is being made in the MND space thanks to Associate Professor Shyuan 'Shu' Ngo and her dedicated group.
Now, a clinical trial that has recently been completed by Professor @Shyuan (Shu) Ngo and her research group delves into the body's energy dynamics, aiming to uncover new paths to prolong cell survival and improve quality of life for those diagnosed.. But they don't want to stop there.
"The first big vision that we really have is a world free from MND so that no one has to receive this diagnosis that, there is no cure for a disease," Shu said.
"But really the second thing in the lab is to really generate the next wave of leaders in Australian research, who can take what we do here at UQ even further, make it their own and maybe treat other neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's disease or Parkinson's disease."
We are genuinely excited to see where this journey leads the Ngo research group, and MND research in general.
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