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BUPA London 10,000, Monday 30th May 2011

Rob Pitceathly, Sammy Anwuzia, Professor Michael Hanna, Trish Turner & Gita Ramdharry with their Bupa 10,000 medals

Professor Hanna, Sammy Anwuzia, Rob Pitceathly, Gita Ramdharry and Trish Turner represented the Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases to raise funds for the National Brain Appeal [formally the National Hospital Development Foundation (NHDF)] to support research into serious muscle wasting neurological diseases in the Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at the BUPA London 10,000 on 30th May 2011.

We do hope you will be able to support us and any donation, no matter how small, will be gratefully received. To donate, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/Mike-Hanna1 and sponsor Professor Hanna online. Alternatively, you can send a cheque made payable to ‘National Hospital Development Foundation’ and send to Professor Hanna at Box 102, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG.

The Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases would truly value your support.

Professor Michael G Hanna

Consultant Neurologist

Queen Square Divisional Clinical Director

Theresa Dauncey

Chief Executive

National Brain Appeal

Registered Charity No. 290173

Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, 8-11 Queen Square

The National Brain Appeal, the charity dedicated to raising funds for the hospital, has worked with Professor Michael Hanna over the last two years, and were successful in opening the UK’s first comprehensive Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases in December 2009. The new centre at 8-11 Queen Square has brought together the entire team of Queen Square experts in these fields, led by Professor Hanna. It includes a clinical trials facility and IT systems to support the development of new treatments and facilitate translational research to benefit patients. The centre is a truly unique environment supporting young scientists to develop research programmes to find treatments for these serious diseases.

We urgently need to raise funds to support important clinical research in the new centre, and in particular to support young scientists we are training. We have already raised funds for two young scientists. We had one hundred applications for these two posts, and we would like to give a larger number of talented young scientists the opportunity to do research in these diseases in our new centre. So far we have raised £120,000, and Professor Hanna is personally committed to raising £1million towards a comprehensive programme for talented young scientists to join the team and help drive the research to find treatments.

Neuromuscular neurological diseases are serious muscle wasting disorders which often affect children and young adults. There are over 100 neuromuscular diseases and common examples include Motor Neurone Disease, Polymyositis, Inclusion Body Myositis, Peripheral Neuropathy, Myaesthenia Gravis, Muscular Dystrophy and other life threatening diseases. 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.