Prior Park College‘s Mansion will be lit green this Saturday for World Mitochondrial Disease Awareness, an annual event which aims to raise awareness of the disease and improve the lives of people affected by ‘mito’.
Mitochondrial disease is a genetic disorder that can affect any organ in the body at any age, and often occurs in babies and young children. There is currently no cure.
Additionally, mitochondrial dysfunction has been identified as a key factor in other more common diseases including dementia, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, and cancer.
Despite being a little-known disease, mito could be the key to some of the most important medical breakthroughs of our time.
Prior Park has supported this event for the last six years, working with The Lily Foundation, the largest charitable funder of mitochondrial research in Europe.
