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Photo from 2015 marathon: Thin Hom Aung (second row, left) was one of six runners on the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon team. She is pictured with fellow marathon runners from the Central Mass Striders. |
The UMass ALS Cellucci Fund will host a team to participate in the Boston Marathon for the fifth year and prospective runners are encouraged to apply to take part.
John Hancock, the principal sponsor of the annual event, accepted the Cellucci Fund into its non-profit marathon program, allowing UMMS to give five official race numbers to marathoners who commit to raising at least $7,500 each for the fund. This year’s marathon takes place on April 18.
In the years that runners from the Cellucci Fund have participated in the marathon, the group has raised $225,000 for the fund, which supports the ALS research breakthroughs happening at UMass Medical School and in the laboratory of Robert H. Brown Jr., D Phil, MD, the Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research and one of the world’s leading ALS researchers. The goal of the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund is to create a $10 million endowment to seed the boldest research ideas in the interdisciplinary labs under Dr. Brown’s authority.
Applicants for the 2016 Cellucci Fund Boston Marathon team will be evaluated based on their fundraising history and their reasons for wanting to run the Boston Marathon with the Cellucci team. The goal is to have a group of runners who are personally vested in the cause of finding treatments and a cure for ALS.
Related Links on UMassMedNow:
Cellucci Fund 2015 Boston Marathon team raises money, awareness for ALS research
UMass ALS Cellucci Fund team running Boston Marathon
