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At 14 I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Crohn's Disease is a debilitating and agressive form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It affects around 5 million people worldwide, including over 100,000 in the UK. There is currently no cure and up to 80% of patients will need surgery at some point in their lifetime.

Professor John Hermon-Taylor (King's College London) is an expert in Crohn's Disease who has been researching its cause for over thirty years. He strongly believes that Crohn's Disease is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP)- commonly passed to humans through cows milk. 

We are fundraising 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.