RETALILAWESTON TRUST

In 2016 the Reta Lila Weston Trust launched grant funding specifically for research into the microbiome and its links to neurodegenerative diseases. The £1.2 million grant was awarded to a team from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London to identify how changes in gut microbiota and microglia activation could slow the progression of MND a disease that affects 5,000 in the UK at any one time, with six people newly diagnosed every day. In the UK, MND kills a third of people within a year of diagnosis and more than half within two years of diagnosis.