THERE is a good reason why Tim Blair and Shane Taylor are running 960km to Bondi in Sydney to raise money for the Kids Cancer Project.
Kids Cancer Project founder Col Reynolds met Professor Peter Gunning in the late 1970s where he found him without any money to continue work in his research lab for a cure for children’s cancer.
Mr Reynolds liked the way Professor Gunning operated and told him he would raise the money – you just find the cure.
That was three decades ago and now they are about to start human trials with their newly developed drug called TR100.
The drug makes the cancer cells attack each other and so far has proved 100 per cent effective with no side effects.
The money raised by Mr Blair and Mr Taylor will go straight into this research.
“What the boys are doing is truly amazing and I am so proud of them both,” Mr Reynolds said yesterday.
“We are on the verge of something truly amazing with TR100 and I do believe it will be the cure of childhood cancer.”
Mr Reynolds said children’s cancer had been neglected for so many years, but believed it was the answer for curing both adult and children’s cancer.
“Children haven’t been exposed to all the harmful things adults have so to me they are the obvious start to find a cure.”
The drug has been picked up by an Australian pharmaceutical company and human trials will be conducted as a world first.
“The trials will be done on every childhood cancer, except brain tumours, which is something never done in the world before.”
Mr Reynolds was supposed to fly down from his home in Townsville to see the men finish their journey in Sydney but due to an injury is unable to.
He will be in Tasmania in a few months and will catch up with them then.
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