This festive season, the University of Sheffield community is coming together to fundraise for Parkinson's Disease research. Donate directly or support our community's efforts in raising funds for essential research into this debilitating disease.

Today you can help raise £2,000 by the end of 2020, to support essential research into this debilitating disease. Our researchers are confident that new discoveries are just around the corner. Your support today can help back the next breakthrough.

Join the fight against Parkinson's Disease

Our scientists need your help to carry on their important research into Parkinson's. Every day, they are working to find a cure for this devastating disease.

Two more people are diagnosed every hour, the same as 18,000 people every year. affecting 145,000 people in the UK alone in 2020, new treatments are needed to stop Parkinson's in its tracks.

With clinicians and scientists working together at Sheffield, our unique bench-to-bedside approach is a beacon of medical research best practice.

The impact of Sheffield's research

Together with your support, we can make a real difference. Our research will result in a huge leap forward towards personalised treatments for Parkinson's:

-> Finding personalised treatments for patients to slow or even stop how quickly the disease takes hold

-> Speeding up the development of new treatments

-> Improving the effectiveness and outcomes of clinical trials

Back the next breakthrough

The University of Sheffield is a world-leader in neurological research. Together we can fight this devastating disease.