You did it! In two years, £462,000 was raised for our Brain Tumour Research Fellowship. A big thank you to everyone who gave to this Appeal.

Thanks to a grant from the Grand Charity of Freemasons, we have been able to find the very best candidate for the post. On November 1st, Dr Nico Henriquez (left), an experienced oncologist/ immunological scientist (previously at the University of Leiden), started work at Queen Square. As the Freemason’s grant will cover the greater part of the fellowship it will be known as the “Grand Charity’s Fellowship”. We are most grateful to the Freemasons for this generous gift.

The Brain Research Trust will continue to raise funds for equipment and other areas of brain tumour research, but this Fellowship will focus in particular on the role of neuro-developmental mechanisms in brain tumour pathogenesis. The key objectives over 5-years of the fellowship will be, i) to understand the biology of these tumours and to identify from which cells they arise, ii) to study the cellular and molecular events that occur early in this transformation, and arising from these data, iii) to design further models of brain tumours.

With many thanks to the following Trust & Corporate donors;-

The Van Geest Foundation, The Norman Family Trust, Edwin George Robinson Charitable Trust, Marcus Vitruvius Lodge, Astra Zeneca, The Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust, HDH Wills 1969 Charitable Trust, The Towry Law Charitable Trust, The Samuel Scott of Yews Trust. The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust.

In Memoriam gifts

Stephen Meyer, Elizabeth Burlumi, R. W. Duffy, C.W. Hepworth, Mrs Janet O’Hare, Mrs Maureen Pilgrim, D.A. Sparrow, D.G. Stanton, Mrs Daphne Whiteoaks, Mr & Mrs A. Drage, J. Medhurst.

Some of our supporters personally raised huge amounts. Jim Fallon ran the Stockholm Marathon and raised almost £5,500. Mr & Mrs Drage of Northwood, asked their friends for donations instead of Golden Wedding gifts. They gave the BRT a cheque for £800 in memory of their son-in-law, Jeremy, who was only 42 when he died of a brain tumour.