Experience

Down Syndrome Research Foundation UK

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Director, Registered Charity / Non profit organization.

  • Jul 1995 - Present

  We are a charity working to promote research for people with Downs syndrome, the commonest cause of learning difficulty at birth. It also comes with increased risk of many other disorders including Alzheimer's. It is been neglected with respect to medical research. Our mission is to lobby for and undertake research which will help to identify and develop interventions which alleviate the medical, physical, developmental and cognitive conditions associated with Trisomy 21 (T21) which are collectively described as Down’s syndrome. At the backbone of our work is the premise that people with T21 also deserve the innovation and improved research techniques seen and used to research and treat other conditions and illnesses over the last 50 years.