📢 Please donate to The Institute of Cancer Research – I’ll be trying to run very far quite fast with your donations as motivation!

My colleagues at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) are truly inspirational, and their research is changing the lives of people with cancer – in the UK and around the world.

My own family have benefited from the ICR’s research, as I’m sure many of yours have, and I feel super proud to work here, telling the public about these discoveries every day.

But the ICR is a charity, and it relies on generous donations to conduct all of its amazing research. I’d be really grateful if you could spare some change to support the ICR’s work.

They are making the discoveries that defeat cancer. In the year and a bit that I have worked here, researchers at the ICR have identified more genetic causes of cancer and developed ways to diagnose cancer earlier, designed kinder methods of radiotherapy treatment to spare patients from harsh side effects – with similar ICR-led clinical trials changing practice – and set up a world-first clinical trial for patients with brain tumours.

The ICR has discovered more new cancer drugs than any other academic centre in the world, and in my short time here these drugs have been approved by regulators and made available on the NHS.

The ICR has a long track-record of achievements, from discovering that smoking causes cancer, to identifying the BRCA2 gene – and conducting the research and trials that led to the targeted drug for cancers with this mutated gene.

All of these discoveries mean that people with cancer can access better, kinder treatments, giving them the chance to live well for longer.

Please do consider donating to support this work. I’ll be running the London Landmarks half marathon – keep me motivated by donating!