Behçet’s UK has joined as an affiliate charity partner of the UK’s largest health research programme.
As an affiliate charity, we’ll be sharing our expertise in the prevention, early detection and treatment of Behçet’s with the Our Future Health programme. By joining forces, we’ll also have a role in shaping the programme to ensure it is fit to serve the research needs of people living with Behçet’s.
Behçet’s UK Chair, Tony Thornburn, said, “From the outset I was impressed with the innovative and holistic way Our Future Health was approaching health conditions across the country – and its priority of reaching into all communities. As a rare condition that can and does affect any organ in the body Behçet’s, often complicated by comorbidity and looking like other rare diseases, it needs this systemic research approach to advance understanding and can be regarded as a trailblazing condition to help represent the rare disease space”.
Dr Raghib Ali, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Our Future Health, said, “We’re really pleased to welcome Behçet’s UK as our newest affiliate charity partner. We want to ensure that all health conditions are represented in our research programme, including rare diseases. This partnership will help us drive forward research into preventing, detecting and treating conditions like Behçet’s disease.”