High hopes for MND drug trial

Updated June 28 2018 - 1:31pm, first published April 4 2017 - 12:00am
PROMISING DRUG: Professor Trent Woodruff one of the Queensland scientists developing a drug which delays the progression of motor neurone disease.
PROMISING DRUG: Professor Trent Woodruff one of the Queensland scientists developing a drug which delays the progression of motor neurone disease.

MOTOR neurone disease is considered a certain and unpleasant death sentence, however Australian scientists have developed a drug with the potential to delay the progression of the disease - and it could be in human trials by 2019.

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