Charity Marks Brain Tumour Awareness Month with a Visit to London’s Blizard Institute
In March, a group of trustees, supporters and bereaved family members from local charity In Sue’s Name were invited to the Blizard Institute at Queen Mary University London to meet the research team and tour the incredible research laboratories.
The families also placed plaques dedicated to their loved ones on the ‘Wall of Hope’ in a moving ceremony at which their lost relatives are remembered.
The visit coincided with the charity’s founder, David Taylor, being featured on ITV’s Evening News programme, and with Brain Tumour Awareness Month, which focuses the charity’s supporters on a 100km sponsored ‘Walk of Hope’.
In Sue’s Name has been raising money for research into brain cancers at the Institute through their umbrella organisation, Brain Tumour Research, for over ten years, and in that time, more than £550,000 has been donated.
The money raised funds for PhD students who are involved in complex neuro-oncology research, seeking to identify the triggers that cause normal brain cells to develop into cancerous ones. Having established the roots of these triggers, they will then look into ways of suppressing or stopping the spread of the malignant elements.
The work is incredibly time-consuming and technical, involving the synthesis of real brain cells and the analysis of cell characteristic data using AI modelling. But breakthroughs ARE being made, and each step forward takes us closer to cures that will spare families the tragic loss of a loved one from brain cancer.
That’s why In Sue’s Name’s fundraising is so important; the more research funds they can raise, the sooner these cures will be found, and the more lives will be saved.
In Sue’s Name, has no paid employees, only volunteers.
If you’d like to join them, donate or find out more about their work,
contact David Taylor on 07940 877486 – David set up the charity in 2014
after losing his eldest daughter, Sue, to brain tumours aged just 42.
www.insuesname.org.uk
