About Leuka 2000

Over the years Leuka 2000 has made major contributions to the refurbishment of clinical facilities for patient care. 

It currently pays the salaries for a number of laboratory research staff.  It also provides funds to purchase various items of laboratory equipment required at short notice.

A major new initiative started in 1998 aided by the Lord Levene of Portsoken, the then newly elected Lord Mayor of the city of London, when an appeal was started to raise funds to construct and equip a new building on the Hammersmith Hospital site. 

To date over £9 million has been raised with some government help.  The new building, named Catherine Lewis Centre, is partially completed and is in use. It was named after a patient who died at the hospital.

Our history

The Charity was established in 1982 by Lester Cazin who was a leukaemia patient at the Hammersmith Hospital and who died in 1986.  It was recognised that research is a high cost , high technology area which receives limited state funding and further support was required.  Much needed funds are vital to the success of further Leukaemia studies.