Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Crohn's disease is a debilitating and agressive bowel disease, for 15 years. Vast majority of Crohn's disease sufferers need to take strong drugs to control their symtoms and 80% will eventually require a surgery at some stage in their lifes. This disease affects around 5 million people worldwide.

The current mainstream gastroenterology consensus is that Crohn's disease is a form of an auto-immune disease which cannot be cured but only provided with a symptomatic relief. However, over the past of last couple of decades a compelling evendince has been accumulated which suggest that the Crohn's disease is caused by an infectious agent MAP (very stubborn slow growing bacteria similar to a tuberculosis bacteria) and therefore can be cured.

Professor John Hermon-Taylor of King's College London has invented a modern therapeutic vaccine against MAP which he believes holds the best hope of a cure for Crohn’s that there has ever been. It is designed to stimulate the body’s own immune system to selectively eliminate MAP-infected cells. Animal studies in mice and in cattle have shown it to be highly effective against MAP with no obvious adverse effects. The Vaccine has been fully developed and is awaiting manufacture and a trial in humans (to be funded through investment/the commercial sector).

We are working to raise funds to enable the Crohn's MAP Vaccine
developed by Prof. John Hermon-Taylor to commence human trails.

Every £5000 enables the research team to pay for:

• 1 month's salary of their excellent research scientist OR
• 2 month's salary of a lab technician they would really like to appoint OR
• 3 month's worth of reagents and laboratory consumables OR
• Open
   access to core scientific facilities such as super-resolution
  microscopy, advanced laser capture microdissection, flow cytometry,
  proteomics and genomics and advanced image analysis software.

For more info:
https://www.justgiving.com/CrohnsMAPVaccine-MEN9150/

Please donate for this cause, every little helps.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity. So it’s the most efficient way to donate – saving time and cutting costs for the charity.