{"id":12507,"date":"2022-09-09T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leukemiarf.org\/?p=12507"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:27:56","slug":"donor-brin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leukemiarf.org\/news\/donor-brin\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Gerry Brin is on a mission to use his favorite sport to fight leukemia, the disease that claimed the life of his nephew, Alan, in 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gerry’s nephew received bone marrow from his sister as a last hope to cure his leukemia. The bone marrow transplant was unsuccessful. On Father’s Day that year, Alan died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gerry turned his grief into action, and in 1986 Gerry organized an all-inclusive ski adventure fundraiser in Park City, Utah. Dubbed Ski for Research, the event benefited the Foundation and welcomed nearly 20 people from the Chicago area that first year. Thirty-seven years later, Ski for Research has raised more than $1M for the Leukemia Research Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One fateful Ski for Research trip solidified why Gerry is including the Leukemia Research Foundation in his estate plans. A skier in Gerry’s group \u2013 who was also a leukemia survivor \u2013 was injured on the slopes. The ski patroller who came to the injured skier’s aid shared he also was a leukemia survivor, and the drug Gleevec was keeping him alive. Gerry was speechless. He knew the Leukemia Research Foundation was one of the first to fund the research that led to the development of Gleevec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n