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Downing Street reception promotes need for research into fatal disease
09 February 2007
Cherie Booth QC has thrown her weight behind efforts to bring about a World free of Motor Neurone Disease. Ms Booth, wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair MP, spoke of her support for research into the disease while hosting a reception on behalf of the MND Association.The reception was held at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday (7 February) to help garner support for the MND Association Research Foundation, which aims to raise £15 million over the next two years to drive research towards finding a cure for MND.
Ms Booth told the assembled guests: “We need to ensure that in the future, people will not have to go through this experience. Hopefully we will find that elusive cure. It is a great ambition and one I think we can achieve.”
More than three people a day die from MND in the UK, yet little is known about the disease. Scientists believe there has never been a better time to harness the unprecedented recent developments in science, technology and medicine to find out what causes the disease, how to speed up diagnosis and improve care, and – most importantly – how to end it.
The MND Association is campaigning for £7.5 million of Government funding for research, and has committed to raising the same amount again through its own fundraising activities.
Guests at the reception, drawn from the worlds of finance, business and society, heard how they could support the Foundation and play their part in making MND history.
