News 2016

Donation to Project Mine

DeterMND has made another €30,000 donation to the Ireland branch of Project MinE ( @_makeityours ). The project focuses on identifying genes associated with MND, hopefully leading to developing treatments. The team have had a major breakthrough recently, with the discovery of the NEK1 gene. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to DeterMND, your support is helping to make a difference...

Giro d'Italia Gran Fondo

Huge thanks to Anto McKenna, Joe Finnegan and Sean Fennel who are currently taking part in the Giro D'Italia Gran Fondo to raise awareness and research funds in support of deterMND. Maith thu ...

Sacred Heart College support DeterMND

A huge thank you to Sacred Heart college, Omagh for their very generous donation to the deterMND trust. The year 13 and 14 Business studies students undertook a project management module which focused on raising awareness and funds for a community charity/trust. Dearbhla McDonald, the student project lead said "when we were given the task by our teacher Mr Freaney, one of the first...

Spar Craic 10k a huge success

On Thursday, 17 March 2016, over 1300 runners took to the streets of Belfast for the Spar Craic 10k fun run. The day was organised by the Aisling events team and this year deterMND were chosen as the community partner.   The race started at 9 AM from Belfast City Hall and took in the city centre, Falls Road and Grosvenor before finishing at Titanic Belfast. The PSNI and over 90 volunteers...