Research Project
Your Branch continues to fund research at Sheffield Hallamshire Hospital. Our latest sponsorship, to which we have contributed £35,000 is described below.
What this research means in simple language: Recent evidence suggests that in the earliest stages of MND, the ends of motor neurons “die back” from the muscles they control. This project will investigate the idea that \'dying back\' happens because of a failure of the transport systems that move essential supplies to the far end of the neuron. The researchers will use a mouse model of MND to better understand how the transport system goes wrong, with the ultimate aim of working out how the problem can be corrected.