The Humane Research Trust CIO
The Humane Research Trust is the UK’s largest charitable funder of exclusively animal-free medical research. We support pioneering scientists developing human-relevant alternatives to animal experiments, helping advance treatments while avoiding animal suffering. Since 1961, we have funded scientists developing innovative, animal-free approaches to diseases including cancer, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s and eye conditions.
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic condition affecting more than 11,148 people in the UK. You are born with CF and cannot catch it later in life, but one in 25 of us carries the faulty gene that causes it, usually without knowing. We are in a time where there will be more people living with CF in the UK than ever before. For many people with CF, lives are getting longer and healthier. However, not everyone with CF can benefit from the latest treatments, and they are not a cure.
Heart Research UK
Every five minutes, someone dies from heart diseases in the UK, that’s almost 100,000 needless deaths every year. At Heart Research UK, we’re determined to change this statistic. By leaving a gift in your Will to our charity, you will help us discover the next breakthrough in treatment, stopping the devastation that heart diseases cause every day.
Medical Research Foundation
Medical Research isn’t just about scientific discovery – it’s about protecting the health of the people we care about for years to come. So if you’re hoping that your Will can provide a better, happier, healthier life for those you love, would you consider supporting medical research. By leaving a gift to the Medical Research Foundation, you’ll be funding the research that future generations will depend on.
National Heart and Lung Foundation
The Foundation funds clinical research at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in conjunction with the National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College and with Kings College, London. These are postgraduate hospitals and universities specialising at national and international levels in the treatment of common and rare disorders of the heart and lung. Clinical research is carried out by committed teams of clinicians and scientists who deliver bench-to-bedside research by investigating diseases using cutting-edge science, and by delivering advances in science to patients.
TB Alert
Tuberculosis (TB) is the greatest infectious cause of death worldwide. Until the 1960s it was a major killer in Britain. Many older people will remember the isolation sanatoria and fear. Each year in Britain, there are still around 5,000 people diagnosed with TB. Even worse, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that one and a half million people worldwide still die from TB annually, despite improvements in diagnostic tools and drugs. A figure that has increased as health resources were diverted away from TB to address the Covid pandemic.
Wessex Medical Research
Wessex Medical Research funds medical research based principally at the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust but also in the greater Wessex region comprising Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, South Wiltshire and the Channel Islands. Current areas of research activity include breast, cervical, ovarian and prostate cancer, leukaemia, melanoma, strokes, respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease, autism, childhood disorders including child brain injury and developmental studies during pregnancy.