Phil's Big Walk 2024
Phil is a Senior Research Fellow in the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research. His work focuses on improving the quality of life for people living with a range of health conditions including motor neurone disease.
The Big Walk is a fantastic initiative that helps to support and fund meaningful research endeavours that help to make a genuine improvement to people’s health outcomes and quality of life.
I have taken part in two Big Walks to date, supporting the campaign for the Sheffield Scanner and Genetic Disease Research.
In my research, I am actively working with clinicians, researchers, and people living with MND on an innovative project to improve quality of life outcomes for people diagnosed with this devastating condition.
I have been inspired by the people I have collaborated with living with MND as part of my research. Their desire to get involved with research and give up their time to help improve outcomes not only for themselves, but for people who may be diagnosed with MND in the future is truly admirable.
In my opinion, communities like this deserve all the support they can get and the collective effort of the Big Walk at the University of Sheffield represents a small part of that."
Phil Powell
Solutions in healthcare and improvements in people’s health outcomes do not come out of thin air, they are built on hours and hours of dedicated research activities. This includes a sustained commitment from researchers, clinicians, people living with health conditions, and people affected by them.
Therefore, if you want to make sustainable improvements to the lives of people living with chronic and life-limiting health conditions, such as MND, you have to fund and support the foundation for those improvements to occur, and that is research."
Support Phil's fundraising here
Sheffield researchers are working tirelessly to find a cure for this debilitating condition. Their ongoing research hopes to discover more effective treatments to improve the lives of patients living with the disease.
With your support, a much needed breakthrough in MND will come sooner, improving the lives of patients long into the future.
Will you support Sheffield researchers with a gift today?
About the appeal
MND affects around 5,000 people in the UK every year. It kills six people in the UK every day, with a third of those diagnosed losing their lives within just a year. Tragically, people die from this devastating disease because there are currently no treatments that can stop it. But there's hope.
Your gift in support of motor neurone disease research will make a difference now. It will support our researchers at SITraN to develop treatments and advances that positively impact the lives of patients and their families.
SITraN has demonstrated that having clinicians and researchers working alongside each other, taking what they learn in the labs straight to patients, really works. But in part due to its great success, the facility is facing chronic pressures for space and is operating beyond capacity, delaying advancements.
Now, a world-class sister facility will be built alongside SITraN that will double capacity, grow research and drug discovery programmes, and build on promising areas such as cell and gene therapy.
We know that SITraN’s next chapter will be written in part thanks to our incredible supporter community.
Will you help to write the next chapter for SITraN?