This year I will once again be leading a team to run in the BUPA London 10,000 on Monday 27 May. My team and I will be representing the Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases and raising funds for The National Brain Appeal to support research into serious muscle wasting neurological diseases at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

There are over 100 serious, often neglected, muscle wasting neuromuscular diseases and common examples include Motor Neurone Disease, Polymyositis, Inclusion Body Myositis, Peripheral Neuropathy, Myaesthenia Gravis and Muscular Dystrophy. They affect well over 100,000 people in the UK. For many of these diseases we still don’t have cures and we want to change this (read more at www.cnmd.ac.uk). 

In 2009, following a £1.8 million appeal by The National Brain Appeal, we successfully opened the UK’s first Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases. The new Centre has brought together the entire team of Queen Square experts in these fields, led by myself. It includes a clinical trials facility to support the development of new treatments and facilitate translational research into real benefit patients and is a truly unique environment. 

Last year I was especially delighted to complete the run with a patient who we had successfully treated and this year another patient is joining our team.

We want to continue our vital work and in particular we want to raise funds to support more young scientists and doctors to develop research programmes to find treatments for these serious diseases in the Centre. But to achieve this I need your help.

I do hope you will be able to support us and any donation, no matter how small, will be gratefully received.

Thank you very much for your support and kind contributions. 

Mike Hanna

 

 

 

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