My cause:

Please support me by donating any amount, big or small, to Hope for Tomorrow. Time with our loved ones, our friends and family, is life’s greatest gift. Each donation gives this to a cancer-afflicted family who needs it.

Thank you for your donation and for supporting me!

PS. For each donation I will post something more about me, my journey, my training, or my life. Feel free to include a question/topic in your donation message! I’d also really appreciate some good running tracks 🎶

About me:

I spend my career developing new medicines for people with cancer - all day, every day. You can imagine the shock to my system when I became a cancer patient myself. In May 2025 I underwent major surgery to remove a cancer and I started running a bit to get my heart and lungs ready for the strain. I knew the road to recovery would be long and I wanted to continue running when I could, after the recovery period, to start regaining fitness and function. It was at this point that I decided I wanted to run towards something to focus on a goal rather than to run away from the reality of what was about to happen. And so, having never been a runner before, I entered the Paris Marathon 2026 with all the apprehension that accompanies such a daunting task! (Oh, and I conscripted my sister along for the ride… sorry Bex!)

I’m not going to write lots about the shock, trauma, and pain that having a cancer and the treatment that accompanied it came with, for me or my family. This is obvious. Instead I want to focus on my indescribable thankfulness for my family and friends who came to visit me in hospital and at home before and after. The support I received is what got me through the journey this far, and what will fuel what is to come. The reality is that not everyone with cancer has this fortune and there are so many people who spend their lives in the impersonal isolation of a ward or clinic room, unable to be with their loved ones as much as they need. This is why, when I was looking for a cause to dedicate my marathon to, I chose not to support cancer research (not because I don’t think this is a good cause - it obviously is! I spend my entire life in cancer research!) and rather support a cause that will make a very practical, tangible, everyday difference to people living with cancer right now. This is why I am dedicating my journey to Hope for Tomorrow (see below).

About Hope for Tomorrow:

Cancer treatment causes sheer fatigue, it’s like someone has taken your batteries out. When you’re faced with a cancer diagnosis, time is crucial. How can people spend more time doing the things they love, with those they love, whilst still getting the life-saving treatment they need?

Hope for Tomorrow build and maintain mobile cancer care units, which change the lives of thousands of people suffering from cancer in England. Not only does this decrease the time needed to travel to a hospital for treatment and give this back to the person’s family, but it also creates room in hospitals for more time to be committed to people who need more complex treatments. It also frees up clinic space for those waiting for diagnosis and treatment. This severe backlog is the single greatest challenge facing cancer treatment in our healthcare system.