The Medical Research Council (MRC) spent £2.0 million, £2.5 million, £1.5 million in the years 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05 respectively on projects related to Motor Neurone Disease. The Projects involved were:
Organisation Project Title Project cost (£) Cardiff University Mechanisms of striatal function and repair 1,092,348 Imperial College The neural control of spinal muscles 63,963 Imperial College The role of WNT-7a in the formation of sensory-motoneuron connections in the spinal cord 55,803 Institute of Neurology Development of neuroinformatics tools for the integration and interpretation of imaging in the degeneration of the brain and dementia 52,052 Institute of Psychiatry MRC London Brain Bank for Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases 349,143 Institute of Psychiatry The role of phosphorylation in neurofiliament function and dysfunction 192,222 King's College London A population study and genome wide search for susceptibility genes in amyotropic lateral sclerosis 281,539 King's College London Identifying a new gene for Motor Neurone Disease 37,809 King's College London - KCL The role of ephrins and Eph receptors in cranial motor neuron migration and axon pathfinding 202,838 King's College London GKT Schools Neuroregeneration genomics 315,906 The University of Manchester Neuronal pathways underlying CNS responses to injury and disease 297,668 University College London UCL Investigations of function and structure in glutamate (NMDA) and glycine receptors, and of disease-causing mutants. 808,639 University College London UCL Molecular analysis of growth and regeneration in the nervous system 658,503 University of Bristol Agonist-induced regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptors 140,004 University of Cambridge Brain repair 481,325 University of Cambridge Safety and feasibility of neural transplantation in early to moderate Huntington's disease in the UK. 165,917 University of Liverpool Relating Function to Structure in lonotropic Glutamate Receptors 193,426 University of Oxford Genetic approaches to understanding lower motor neurone disease 480,434 University of Oxford An analytic study of functional coupling within and between cortical and subcortical motor structures 90,798