If you’re reading this, cancer has touched your life. It took my best friend in high school and both my grandfathers. That story isn’t unique, and that’s exactly the problem.

Damon Runyon funds brilliant young scientists at the moment when their ideas are bold, untested, and world-changing. Thirteen of its fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes. These are the people who take humanity’s biggest leaps forward.

In venture, we know this pattern well, back exceptional talent early, give them room to run, and watch the slope compound. Cancer research is no different. The next breakthrough won’t come from another large institution grinding out incremental gains. It will come from a young scientist with a sharp question and the skill to chase it. Now more than ever, funding early stage research is essential. 

I’m climbing Kilimanjaro to raise $50,000 for Damon Runyon, every penny of which goes directly to fund those scientists. Your gift fuels the next experiment, the next dataset, the next insight that moves us closer to a cure.

$250 — buys the consumables for a new experiment

$500 — secures shared-instrument time for a key assay

$1,000 — funds a week of reagents and analysis for pilot data

$5,000 — accelerates a major project milestone for an early-career fellow

I’m funding the climb myself, so every donation goes straight to the science.

Please join me and help the next generation of researchers take humanity’s next leap forward.

**3 peaks UPDATE** 

We did it!

As part of my preperation for Kili, I put together a team of friends to conquer the Three Peaks Challenge! Climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowden (the highest mountains in scotland, england and wales). We did it in just under 23hrs! Some fo you were kind enough to sponsor the Three Peaks, every penny of which I will match 1:1 toward DR and Kilimanjaro