Friends Marc Mansour and Ian Taylor are cycling London2Paris to raise much needed funds for Cure Leukaemia, a charity close to our hearts. Marc is Professor of Haematology at Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health and University College London Hospital. The leukaemia patients he looks after directly benefit from the research nurses funded through the Cure Leukaemia Trials Accelerator Programme (TAP).  Ian’s father is affected by blood cancer and benefiting from medication developed through clinical trials like TAP.  Neither of us are avid cyclists, so this will be a real challenge - please support us!

About Cure Leukaemia: Cure Leukaemia is a national blood cancer charity which funds the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) which consists of specialist research nurses in 15 of the UK’s biggest cities. TAP enables the rapid setup, recruitment to and delivery of blood cancer clinical trials giving patients from a UK catchment area of over 20 million people access to potentially lifesaving treatments not currently available through standard care.

With over 40,000 people diagnosed with blood cancer every year, the TAP network allows patients to be connected with world-class and potentially lifesaving treatments that would otherwise not be available to them through standard care.

As of 2022, through Cure Leukaemia’s support, the TAP network have been able to develop 4 brand new trials through direct funding. The TAP network have also been able to leverage over £6 million in free drugs to be delivered into the NHS, at no cost to them.