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We will be stepping away from Bluesky from 1st March 2026.
A person reading the Anne Rowling Clinic's 2025 winter newsletter on an iPad. They are standing in front of a colourful tapestry inside the University of Edinburgh's Chancellor's Building.
🐧 Our Winter 205 Newsletter is here! 🐧
We’re excited to share the latest news, updates, and stories from the Anne Rowling Clinic.
☕ Take a cozy moment & have a read we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
👉🏼https://www.annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/winter-2025-newsletter
We're pleased to share the latest Euan MacDonald Centre newsletter - a great snapshot of our last 6 months of MND research, collaboration & community.
#ALS #SMA #MND #research #science
@edinunineuro.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk
View the newsletter here👇🏽
www.euanmacdonaldcentre.org/about/news/w...
✨ Festive Closure – Anne Rowling Clinic ✨
The Anne Rowling Clinic will be taking a short break over the winter closure period.
🔒Closing at 5 pm on Tuesday 23rd Dec 2025
⭐Re-opening on Monday 5th Jan 2026 at 8 am 🙂
🌐Visit our website for FULL DETAILS🌐
www.annerowlingclinic.org/.../christma...
There's still time to participate if you live with MS and want to help research by completing a survey. See below for more details: www.annerowlingclinic.org/research-tri...
#MS #multiplesclerosis #research #survey #science
🎉Congratulations to Rowling Scholar Dr Johnny Tam for his winning video at the 2025 MRC Max Perutz Awards.
#science #sciencecommunication #MND_research
@theobserveruk.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk @edinunineuro.bsky.social @euanscentre.bsky.social
News article👇
www.annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/a...
This is a fantastic chance to join a world-leading research network👇
#MND #ALS #SMA #research #science #PhD #PhDscholarship
Led by senior research nurse Ethan Stoker, the team at the Anne Rowling Clinic have reached their recruitment target for the ALS-Biomarker study.
Read about their success👉 edin.ac/43H7PBx
@ucl.ac.uk @united2endmnd.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social @mndsmart.bsky.social
#ALS #MNDresearch
Cell Press and Lancet joint webinar details. Innate immunity regulation of brain health. Thursday November 20 2025, 14:00 GMT, 09:00 EST, 22:00 CST
Cell Press and Lancet joint webinar panel members. Elena Becker-Barroso, Sam Rose, David Hunt, Andrea Ablasser and Manuel Friese
⏰Register for this afternoon's webinar⏰
Prof David Hunt is one of the panel members in this joint webinar between The Lancet Group & Cell Press. The panel will examine the importance of innate immunity in the development of neurological diseases.
Register👉https://tinyurl.com/2p9npehy
@ukdri.ac.uk
Delighted to share this excellent survey by @euansguide.com Take part and make your voice heard and make real changes happen for a better and more accessible future. #science #access #accessibility #MND #ALS #disability
*Post and article discusses suicidal feelings"
Researchers at the Anne Rowling Clinic in partnership with the University of East Anglia have summarised their 2024 research paper "Understanding Suicidal Thoughts After an MS Diagnosis."
Read the article here👇 www.annerowlingclinic.org/.../understa....
Researchers from the Anne Rowling Clinic, in collaboration with the University of British Columbia (Canada), conducted a large-scale study exploring the long-term health effects of interferon-beta treatment in people with multiple sclerosis.
Read the full news article here 👉 edin.ac/478ycRu
Congratulations Dr Bastien Rioux, the latest Rowling Scholar to submit his PhD.
Bastien's thesis uses big data to investigate inflammation in brain health.
Bastien is now a postdoc at The Paris Brain Institute.
We wish him all the best in his future career!
www.annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/b...
The Edinburgh Parkinson's UK Branch's logo
Interested in Parkinson's research? Then book a place for this year's Edinburgh Parkinson's Branch annual lecture.
Visit our website for info and registration details 🔽
www.annerowlingclinic.org/.../edinburg....
#Parkinsons #parkinsons_research
A happy group of Clinic research staff having some fun before they step-out on a training session for the Edinburgh Kiltwalk. The group are pictured inside of the bright and welcoming Clinic reception area.
We have a happy band of Anne Rowling Clinic research staff are taking on the Edinburgh Kiltwalk on 14 Sept. They will be striding out across Edinburgh in tartan and with purpose.
Please consider sponsoring our 'Rowling Ramblers' via their JustGiving page➡️ www.justgiving.com/campaign/fix...
📢There's a great team from Edinburgh University MS Imaging Research Group walking the 11-mile Big Stroll at the Edinburgh Kiltwalk on Sept 14 to support MS research at the Anne Rowling Clinic.
Check out the details on our website⬇️
www.annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/e...
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
📑Read the science communication blog by Anne Rowling Clinic PhD student Jade Lucas. In her blog, Jade shares her enthusiasm & experience of science communication and engaging with our local community:
▶️https://edin.ac/4mMrLKE
#sciencecommunication #science #scienceforall #communityengagement #PhD
A lovely tribute from our friends at Euan's Guide.
Happy #InternationalNursesDay2025 to our amazing nurses at the Anne Rowling Clinic! Their expertise & commitment continue to drive research into neurodegenerative conditions - we’re so lucky to have such a great team. Thank you for everything you do! 🙌
Read our news article: edin.ac/4jOZphc
Pleased to share that a recent publication led by @rozannameijboom.bsky.social highlighting fatigue in MS has been published with a commentary written by Prof Lauren Krupp, NYU in Brains Communication.
edin.ac/3F4apbq
@rozannameijboom.bsky.social @edinunineuro.bsky.social
#science #MS #MRI
💥MS Awareness Week💥
PhD student Claire Robertson from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social has collaborated with our MS team on Claire's research into the use of health comics to convey complex medical information.
The comic is linked in our news article: edin.ac/3GNOl5l
#MSResearch @mstrustuk.bsky.social
Missed the Belinda Weller Distinguished Lecture? Good news -the video recording is now available!
Whether you want to revisit the insights or watch it for the first time, you can now experience this inspiring talk at your convenience.
📺 Watch here: edin.ac/443KQ4y
#science #MOGantibodies #MS
A group of 5 people gathered around an academic poster and smiling at the camera.
We're at Neuroscience Day today!
Here are some of our clinical fellows, research nurses and PhD students.
Great to be part of the collaborative and inspiring #neuroday2025 joining nearly 400 Edinburgh researchers and discussing research spanning a huge range of topics.
@edinunineuro.bsky.social
We're delighted to announce that stage two of the Octopus clinical drugs trial for progressive multiple sclerosis is now open for recruitment at the Anne Rowling Clinic!
#MS #ClinicalTrial
www.annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/o...
@mrcctu.bsky.social @mssocietyuk.bsky.social
The recording from our recent public event, MS Research Meeting (11th March 2025) is now available. Our researchers gave updates on some of our ongoing research studies. Watch here: annerowlingclinic.org/about/news/m...
#MS #clinicaltrials
⏰A few places still available to join us in person or online for the MS Research Meeting: an opportunity for MS research participants & patients to find out about the Clinic's clinical MS research. ⏰#patient_engagement #MS #MS_research
Register today➡️ Eventbrite page: edin.ac/3EBXD3j
🧵Belinda was well known in the MS community & we are pleased to invite ppl who knew Belinda, MS patients previously cared for by Belinda to join us. This is a hybrid event, with in-person places being allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
(photograph by kind permission of the Weller family)
🧵We are delighted to be holding the Belinda Weller Distinguished Lecture as part of the Neuroimmunology & MS meeting in Edinburgh on Tues 11 March at 5pm.
The inaugural Lecture will be given by Prof Jacqueline Palace.
Full details of this hybrid event on our website: edin.ac/4gVqIo5
🚨 Only 2 Weeks to Go! 🚨
The Neuroimmunology & MS Meeting is just two weeks away!
Join leading experts, explore cutting-edge research, network & collaborate with professionals in neurology, neuroimmunology and MS.
Looking forward to seeing you there! www.annerowlingclinic.org/Neuroimmunol...
🚨 Last chance alert! 🚨
Abstract submission for the Neuroimmunology and MS Meeting in Edinburgh closes TONIGHT! 🕛 Don't miss your opportunity to showcase your research at this exciting event.
🔬✨ edin.ac/3NVD9UN
