Mr Cato suffers from motor-neurone disease, a muscle-wasting condition that will leave him unable to breathe.
In May 2003, motor neurone disease sufferer, John Close, 54, died with his family at his bedside.
The 74-year-old had suffered from motor neurone disease for more than four years.
Another researcher at the university, Prof Richard Ribchester, is using the flies for initial research into motor neurone disease.
Michelle Bennett's husband Paul, whose Motor Neurone Disease left him paralysed and in constant pain, died in a Dignitas clinic in May 2006.
Riluzole, a treatment for Motor Neurone Disease, was provided by 94% of authorities, the obesity treatment Orlistat 96% and flu drug Relenza, 96%.
This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
The trust fund was originally set up to help fund stem cell treatment for Michael Emms when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease when in his teens.
Dr Roy Walford, a professor of pathology at the UCLA School of Medicine, died in 2004 due to complications from Lou Gehrig's Disease, also known as Motor Neurone Disease.
But any fears the praise may go to his head are nullified by his heartbreaking experience of nursing his father Mark in his ultimately unsuccessful battle against Motor Neurone disease.
Jersey Hospice Care provides palliative nursing care to islanders with cancer and motor neurone disease, with the majority of its patients - usually about 80 - being cared for at home.
In a previously unreleased interview given to BBC Radio Shropshire when Neilson was diagnosed with motor neurone disease two years ago, Ms Bache described how the kidnapping of the 17-year-old heiress in 1975 shook their home village of Highley.
But Dr David Oliver, a consultant in palliative care at a hospice in Kent, told the Five Live programme that the majority of people with motor neurone disease are able to die a peaceful death if they have good palliative care.
Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.
Motor neurone disease is known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in many parts of the world, and as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, named after the major league baseball player who had to retire from the sport in the late 1930s when diagnosed with the illness.
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As well as the Higgs Prize and a number of other initiatives, this week the government will be announcing the appointment of 33 new health fellows to conduct research into medical challenges such as treating motor neurone disease, how to use technology to help people with diabetes and how to control internal bleeding.
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