Staff at Panacea Pharma Projects raised more than ?1,400 by growing moustaches for the Movermber cancer charities campaign. As the name suggests ‘Movember’ takes place in November and on the first day of the month clean-shaven men registered on the Movember.com website and then pledged to let their moustaches grow for a whole month. There are ‘Mo Bros’ across the world, and funds raised in the UK and Isle of Man go to support The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Movember is organised to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer - the two most common types of male specific cancer - and raise funds for research. Staff at Panacea Pharma Projects - a pharmaceutical company based at Peterson House, Middle River, Douglas - have raised ?1,400 so far with funds still coming in. Managing Director Matthew McSevney, who is still sporting the moustache he grew for Movember, said: “We had around 20 people taking part in Movember this year and, as always, it was a fun way to raise funds for a very good cause. We hosted a Movember Party at the Liverpool Arms which included friends and family of Panacea staff as well as Mo Bros and Mo Sistas from the Department of the Environment, Food and Agriculture, The Children’s Centre, and KPMG.” Panacea specialises in medical device and pharmaceutical pharmacovigilance and has an international portfolio of more than 1,000 products. For more information about Movember go to http://uk.movember.com/about - ENDS -