Illness and disease could strike any one of us at any time. We’re taking real steps to find ways to prevent disability or improve recovery from disabling conditions like stroke, spinal cord injury or blindness by funding a range of cutting-edge research projects.
Previous research
Multiple sclerosis and other myelin diseases: how are damaged nerve fibres repaired?
Date:
1 January 2009 - 18 January 2012
Pain after amputation: clinical trial of a possible new treatment
Date:
1 December 2008 - 30 November 2011
Blindness: Why do so many operations to transplant corneas eventually fail?
Date:
1 October 2008 - 30 September 2011
Why do people lose their sight to AMD?
Date:
1 January 2008 - 30 April 2011
Dupuytren’s disease – do splints help people with this disabling hand condition?
Date:
1 April 2007 - 30 April 2010
The splice of life – insights into genetic disease
Date:
30 April 2007 - 30 April 2010
Spinal cord injury: repairing torn nerve fibres
Date:
18 September 2009 - 17 February 2010
Could vitamin D help cure eye infections and prevent blindness?
Date:
1 November 2007 - 31 October 2009
Detecting eye disease before blindness sets in.
Date:
1 November 2007 - 31 October 2009
From paralysis to osteoporosis – keeping bones strong
Date:
1 October 2006 - 30 September 2009
Research Training Fellowship: Dr Valerie Saw.
Date:
17 July 2006 - 16 July 2009
