The Fiorina Elliott Fellowship
We are proud to announce that on 1st July 2011, we reached our initial fundraising target of £40,000 and as a result, a research fellowship to help fight pancreatic cancer has been awarded in memory of mum.
The Fiorina Elliott Fellowship was awarded to Angelina Mouralidarane, a PhD student, before an audience of 50 staff and guests at the Royal Free Hospital.
We have been grateful to the Royal Free for all their help in trying to save mum’s life and all our work has been to help promote research into pancreatic cancer in mum’s memory. Among the projects supported by the fund is a study of a possible link between pancreatic cancer and obesity.
During the introduction to the award ceremony, Mr Fusai said: “After meeting Fiorina, I was inspired to set up a charity at the Royal Free for pancreatic cancer. I hope the work of the charity will continue for many years. As a first step, I’m delighted to launch today a research fellowship at the Royal Free and UCL into pancreatic cancer.
“The more we know about the disease, the more we hope that in the future we can develop treatments to help patients live longer and ultimately cure the disease.”
Angelina had an opportunity to address the staff and guests and said: “I’m delighted to be awarded this fellowship. By looking at possible links between obesity and pancreatic cancer, we hope to identify earlier markers for the disease, potential treatments, and reduce deaths. I am able to do this work with the kind donation of the Fiorina Elliott Fellowship.”
Although we have reached our first milestone, we are by no means ready to slow down our fundraising.
Please see our events page and we would like to welcome everyone to join our annual event in ‘A walk to remember Fiorina’ which is held in Trent Park, Cockfosters on the anniversary of losing mum.
Marianne Elliott