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Dr. Liam O’Neil and the race to stop rheumatoid arthritis

Your help is critical. We need to raise $120,000 to support the research of Dr. O’Neil and other life-changing arthritis research studies.

Why fund Dr. O’Neil’s research?

Rheumatoid arthritis is a devastating and all-too-common autoimmune disease that affects more than 250,000 Canadians. Dr. O’Neil and his team of researchers at the University of Manitoba are studying why white blood cells called neutrophils, responsible for initiating the immune response to viruses and bacteria, begin the chain reaction that causes the immune system to attack the body’s own healthy joint cells, resulting in rheumatoid arthritis.

Better understanding how rheumatoid arthritis develops could dramatically change the lives of people living with the disease. This can lead us ever closer to more effective and earlier treatments and, one day, a cure.

“If we can untangle the mechanisms that cause rheumatoid arthritis and understand how it begins and why joint damage occurs, we can develop treatments that help people before it starts and once it begins. It won’t be easy to stop rheumatoid arthritis, but we can make it happen.”
~ Dr. O’Neil

As a member of our Leadership Circle, you’re keenly aware of the pain and restricted mobility that arthritis can cause and how it reduces the quality of life for millions of Canadians every day.

If researchers like Dr. O’Neil can better understand how and why rheumatoid arthritis happens, it can lead to more effective treatments, and generations of our children and grandchildren will no longer have to endure the hardship and pain of this terrible disease.

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Why your partnership matters?

As a dedicated Arthritis Society Leadership Circle donor, your generous gift supports exceptional research like Dr. O’Neil’s all across Canada.

Please give today and make a meaningful impact on research that’s helping to change how millions of Canadians live with this painful, debilitating disease.

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