Staff members Rob Agar (Health Sciences) and Isla Henderson (Researcher in Cancer Sciences), along with PhD student Peter West (ECS) all took part in the event, raising £651 between them on behalf of the campaign.
Joanne Donahoe, Director of Development and Alumni Relations says:
Seeing our staff and students get involved with the campaign, through activities like the half marathon, is inspiring. Running, swimming, cycling, baking – however you choose to get involved, are all great ways for our staff and students to come together as a community to save even more lives from cancer.
Rob says:
I’ve chosen to promote the CIC because it supports the University’s commitment to life-changing research. I was convinced that the centre is essential in advancing cancer research, so I signed up!
Isla says:
Research at the University is discovering how immunotherapy can enable the body’s immune system to recognise and kill cancer cells. Your immune system is the best weapon you have against cancer, but cancer cells are clever and hard to defeat. Immunotherapy is a revolutionary new treatment, supercharging your body’s natural defences to find and destroy cancer.
The campaign, which will help to further the University’s rich tradition of life-saving research into immunotherapy cancer treatments, will see success through many different kinds of donations, both large and small, that will collectively help us to reach our fundraising goal of raising £25m for the new centre.
We’d like to say a massive well done and thank you to Rob, Isla and Peter for choosing to fundraise on behalf of the campaign. We’d also like to encourage all our staff and students to consider fundraising in aid of the campaign the next time you find yourself facing a fundraising challenge like this weekend’s race.
Visit the campaign website to download our fundraising pack and learn more about how you can become a community fundraiser. And if you want to run next year’s half-marathon on behalf of the campaign, sign-ups are already available here.