A big hi from Dougie, Gus and Martin!

We are 'getting out of breath' for 

The New Breath Fund (In memory of David Gray)

We have decided to do the challenge of a lifetime, and are entered to run the New York Marathon in November 2014.

We are fundraising for the stem cell research into regenerative organ transplants which will allow normal breathing for people with severe airway problems.  Dad was scheduled to be one of the first people worldwide to get a new windpipe engineered from his own stem cells.

As most of you already know, on 3rd November 2013, our Dad tragically died after a fall from his car transporter.  To say we are totally devastated would be a huge understatement.

So......... along with our friend Martin (big thank you Martin!) we felt it was important to try and do something positive.

For all of our lives, and many years before that, Dad struggled with a very narrowed and damaged windpipe - not that it stopped him doing all the things he loved - family stuff, motorsport, classic cars and work.  He didn't complain either - he might have been 'Mr Grumpy' about ordinary everyday things, but not his throat.

Latterly his throat got very bad and he needed his windpipe replaced.  Dad and Mum had been going down to London a lot over the last year where a truly fantastic surgeon, Professor Martin Birchall, of UCL and Royal Free Hospital, and his team were working on a solution to provide Dad with a new windpipe engineered from his own stem cells.

Dad died before this could be done, but it is important to us, Mum, and all the family and friends, that we try and help others benefit from their amazing ground-breaking stem cell research.

All funds will be ring-fenced to support a young Scottish PhD student to link work at the Medical Research Centre, Edinburgh with UCL, London, and will be awarded in Dad's name "The David Gray Regenerative Medicine Research Student Fund".

So please dig deep and support us on our quest to run our first ever marathon, and know that you will be helping others in the future.

Thank you!

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