The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has contributed £892,000 to Prospect-NE, a new personalised cancer treatment and research project, which will be delivered at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle. The genome sequencing project, which will be delivered at the RVI’s molecular pathology node proximity lab, will help develop personalised treatments for cancer patients, […]
A Sunderland couple have raised £140,000 in just 18 months for the hospital unit that saved their daughters life. Sergio and Emma Petrucci’s daughter Luna was not even two years old when her life was saved thanks to treatment at the Children’s Heart Unit at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital, in 2015. The pair […]
According to the NHS, congenital heart disease is one of the most common types of birth defect, affecting up to nine in every 1,000 babies born in the UK. And one little girl from Sunderland was one of those nine affected. Luna Petrucci, now four years old, was diagnosed shortly before her second birthday […]
More than 400 people attended the Red Sky Ball on Friday, March 10, as Sunderland landmarks were lit red for the Children’s Heart Unit Fund (CHUF). The event, held at the Stadium of Light, was organised by Sergio and Emma Petrucci and raised more than £60,000 for the unit at the […]