Press Release Summary: Ruwan Perera has been appointed the new Director of Development of medical research charity Deafness Research UK
Press Release Body: Ruwan Perera has been appointed the new Director of Development of medical research charity Deafness Research UK, the leading charity in the field of medical research and the only national charity dedicated to finding cures for deafness, tinnitus and other hearing problems.
Ruwan was formerly a Director for the charity Missing People and has held numerous senior management roles in other national and international charities over the years.
Deafness Research UK\'s Chief Executive, Vivienne Michael, said, \"Deafness Research UK is at an exciting and challenging point in its development. This appointment forms part of a major restructuring of our fundraising operations designed to bring more specialist expertise into the charity and move us to the next phase in our growth.
\"Our Director of Development will play a key role in taking us forward by delivering significant income growth through high value, corporate, trust and statutory giving and through the wider development of the organisation.
\"There are nine million people in the UK who are deaf or hard of hearing. They range from babies who are born with no hearing at all to over six million people over the age of sixty who are gradually losing their hearing as they age. Millions more have hearing problems such as tinnitus and complex conditions such as deaf-blindness.
\"As the only national charity dedicated to research in this field, Deafness Research UK has a key role to play and our track record of identifying and backing the best, high impact research is impressive. We have played an important part in some of the most significant advances of recent years from new screening tests to identify deaf babies at birth to improving implants that restore sound to totally deaf people. With research entering a new and exciting phase in which medical cures are becoming a real possibility, we must expand our grant-making significantly to meet the need for new people and programmes in UK hearing research.\" ENDS
Notes to editors About Deafness Research UK . Deafness Research UK is the country\'s only charity dedicated to finding new cures, treatments and technologies for deaf, hard of hearing and other hearing impaired people. . The charity supports high quality medical research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all forms of hearing impairment including tinnitus. . The Deafness Research UK Information Service provides free information and advice based on the latest scientific evidence and informed by leading experts. The Information Service can be contacted on Freephone 0808 808 2222 . For more information on research into deafness, tinnitus and other hearing conditions, log on to the website at www.deafnessresearch.org.uk where you can access a wide range of information. Alternatively you can e-mail Deafness Research UK at info@deafnessresearch.org.uk . One in seven people in the UK - almost nine million people - suffer hearing loss. . Deafness Research UK was founded in 1985 by Lord (Jack) and Lady Ashley of Stoke. . In January 2008, Action for Tinnitus Research (ATR) was linked with Deafness Research UK under a uniting direction order under section 96(6) of the Charities Act 1993.
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