5th April 2022

In April 2022, R and D Tax Specialists’ Alex Lawson ran the Paris Marathon in aide of Unite Against Cancer (UAC). The charity was founded by a close friend in 2012, inspired by Christopher Smith who passed away, after a 2-year battle with osteosarcoma at the age of just 17.

Osteosarcoma is a rare type of cancer that affects bone and is more common in older children and teenagers; the causes for this particular type of cancer are poorly understood.

UAC is a Scottish registered charity that raises money to support individuals fighting cancer, fund research into new cancer treatments, raise awareness of this rare cancer type and promote strategies for cancer prevention.

The funds raised by Alex in his effort to complete the marathon will contribute towards training cancer scientists. ‘The Christopher Douglas Smith Postgraduate scholarship’, founded by UAC, provides a fully funded scholarship for the Masters in Cancer sciences postgraduate programme at the University of Glasgow. The programme enables students to work within a multidisciplinary environment of world-leading scientists and cancer specialists to address the latest challenges in cancer diagnosis, research, and treatment.

For more information on the charity and the work done at the University of Glasgow please visit: www.uniteagainstcancer.org or if you want to support Alex in fund-raising you can at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/alex-lawson4