Your support can help us advance our understanding of major health conditions and improve the lives of people affected by them - from heart disease to stroke, metabolic disorders to mental illness, dementia to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. There are lots of ways you can help, from making a donation to fundraising or leaving a gift in your will. No matter what you decide to do, we’ll be here to help. Ways to support our work Fundraise Small informal events, bake sales, sporting challenges: there are countless ways you can fundraise for your chosen area of our work.Fundraise Your Way: Fundraise Your Way | GivingContact Kerry: Kerry.Mackay@ed.ac.uk Give a gift Donors already make an incredibly important contribution to our work. We are always happy to talk about how you would like to support us.Giving: Giving | Giving Contact the philanthropy team: cmvm-philanthropy@ed.ac.uk Leave a gift in your will With a gift in your will, you can create opportunities for education and research for future generations.Gifts in wills: Gifts in wills | Giving | GivingContact Morag: morag.murison@ed.ac.uk Donate online You can also donate by cheque, bank transfer or phone to these funds, or contribute in the other ways described above. We are grateful to all the generous support we receive, so do get in touch with the contacts on this page if you need any help or would like to discuss anything further. Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic Help us find treatments for MS, MND, Parkinson's and other diseases affecting the brain. Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention The Centre aims to prevent 100,000 suicides each year; your generous donation will help us achieve our goal. Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research Your donation will help us find treatments to slow, stop and reverse the effects of MND and related conditions. Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory Help us to improve understanding of what causes early labour, how we can develop treatments to prevent it and how we can better help new born babies in those first crucial hours and days after birth. Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre Each and every gift takes us a step closer to developing treatments for those children and families affected by epilepsy. Patrick Wild Centre Support our research into genetic conditions which affect brain development, such as fragile X syndrome, SYNGAP1-related intellectual disability and CDKL5 deficiency disorder. Row Fogo Centre for Research into Ageing and the Brain Help develop and extend our research to improve the lives of people affected by small vessel diseases, recognised to be the main cause for dementia, Alzheimer's disease and stroke. Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain Support our mission to understand the neurological basis of and to test new therapies for monogenic forms of autism and intellectual disability. UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh Support us to understand how all the different cell types in our brains work together to keep the brain healthy, how this goes wrong in dementia, and how this process can be slowed or stopped to alter disease progression. Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility Help us continue to provide state of the art facilities to support multidisciplinary clinical research and training locally, nationally and internationally. MRC Metabolic Psychiatry Hub Support our efforts to accelerate progress towards novel and more effective treatments for serious mental illness. Donate by cheque or bank transfer Donate by cheque If you are writing a cheque or Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) voucher, please make it payable to “The University of Edinburgh Development Trust” and write the cause you are supporting on the back of it. Post it, along with a cover letter to:Freepost UNIVERSITY REPLY‘UNIVERSITY REPLY’ needs to be in capitals. That’s all you need to write on your envelope, your donation will get to us. Donate by bank transfer You can pay your donation directly into our Bank of Scotland account via the details below: Account name: The University of Edinburgh Development Trust Sort code: 80-02-24 Account number: 00423592 Please email fundraise@ed.ac.uk to let us know what area of the University of Edinburgh you are supporting. Thank you for your support The University of Edinburgh Development TrustThe University of Edinburgh Development Trust is a charity registered in Scotland, with registration number SC004307. The Development Trust processes all donations in aid of the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research. All the money received through your fundraising will directly support research into motor neuron disease and related conditions. Thank You for your support. This article was published on 2026-03-19
