The Mel Evans MBE Foundation is a small charity dedicated to: -
Raising awareness of Motor Neurone Disease
Raising vitally needed research funding to support scientists to find effective treatments and an eventual cure for MND.
The Mel Evans MBE Foundation supports researchers at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Research (SITraN) under the leadership of one of the UK's leading Neuroscientists Professor Dame Pamela Shaw.
The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) opened in 2010 to address motor neuron disease (MND) as one of the most cruel and difficult to treat diseases in medicine. Designed to bring together researchers
with different skill sets. Clinicians, molecular biologists, computer
scientists and modelling experts work together.
To discover new treatable targets in the complex disease biology of MND, develop therapeutic approaches for clinical evaluation and translate these into better treatments for patients.
Could provide an information pack detailing the support available to a newly diagnosed family.
£15 could help fund lab equipment for 3 days' vital research to understand causes of MND
£25 could help fund lab equipment for 6 days' vital research to understand causes of MND