Our Appeal

Up to date £16 million has been raised to build the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

We need to raise another £5 million to fund some of the cutting edge research programmes undertaken at SITraN

Estimated staff costs 
Salaries over 5 years

 
Salary
Supn+NI Total

Chair in Neurogenetics

(Non-Clinical) 
Average total salary rate £91,709

 

368,192

 

90,354

 

458,546

Senior Stem Cell Neuroscientist

(Non-clinical Chair) 
Average total salary rate £91,709

 

368,192

 

90,354

 

458,546

Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Trials

Average total salary rate £109,233

 

437,291

 

108,872

 

546,163

Medicinal Chemistry Scientist

Average total salary rate £60,815

 

246,369

 

57,705

 

304,074

Lecturer in pre-clinical drug development

Average total salary rate £56,519

 

229,440

 

53,159

 

282,599

Clinical Fellowship

Average total salary rate £56,427

 

226,211

 

55,922

 

282,134

Scientific Fellowship

Average total salary rate £51,966

 

211,476

 

48,354

 

259,830

Institute Coordinator

Average total salary rate £64,384

 

260,445

 

61,478

 

321,922

Laboratory Manager

Average total salary rate £55,703

 

226,211

 

52,303

 

278,514

Total salary costs per annum £612,000 on average of which a proportion may be provided by the NHS. To support these staffing costs would require an endowment sum of approximately £7 million

 

 

UP TO 6,000 PATIENTS HAVE 
MND IN THE UK
'There is no worse disease than MND'
Dame Ciceley Saunders OMDBEFRCP, the founder of the modern
hospice movement
'The Sheffield research team will dedicate its work to finding a cure for MND'
ABOUT 95% OF MND CASES 
ARE SPORADIC, OCCURRING 
AS A ONE-OFF CONDITION 
WITHIN THE FAMILY
MEN ARE AFFECTED WITH MND TWICE AS OFTEN AS WOMEN
1,200 PEOPLE DIE FROM MND 
EVERY YEAR