Doddie’s £1m bid for MND treatment
RUGBY legend Doddie Weir’s charitable foundation has donated £1million to a project set up to investigate treatments for motor neurone disease (MND).
The former Scotland international, 51, who was diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 2016, is helping fund research into the illness.
The MND Collaborative Partnership will enable people with the condition to work alongside researchers from University College London, King’s College London and the universities of Sheffield, Liverpool, Oxford and Edinburgh.
Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi of the research programme said: “Our goal is to discover meaningful MND treatments within years, not decades.”