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| More than 1,000 runners and walkers participated in the inaugural race last August. |
The second annual Governor Cellucci Tribute Road Race, to benefit the UMass ALS Cellucci Fund, will be run Saturday, July 25. Registration closes at midnight on Wednesday, July 22.
In addition to the hundreds of people who have registered to run the 5K route through the historic downtown in the late governor’s hometown of Hudson, Chancellor Michael F. Collins, Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD, the Leo P. and Theresa M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research, and chair and professor of neurology, and Gov. Charlie Baker will take part in the ceremony; Lt. Gov. Karen Polito will run the race.
The race is held in tribute to Gov. Paul Cellucci’s long public service career and to support the UMass Medical School fund he created soon after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). More than 1,000 runners and walkers participated in the inaugural race last August.
Dr. Brown, who served as Gov. Cellucci’s physician, continues to make seminal discoveries in identifying gene defects that may be targets for treatment in neuromuscular diseases, which include multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and ALS.
The race will begin at 9 a.m. from the Hudson-Concord Elks Lodge 959, where for many years Gov. Cellucci’s father coordinated the annual Cellucci Family Picnic. The flat and fast 5K running course and the 1.5 mile walking course will go through Hudson’s downtown Historic District, passing directly in front of the Hudson Town Hall, where the former governor began his career in public service and where a new Governor Cellucci Memorial Park is being constructed.
Visit the Cellucci Fund website at http://www.umassals.com/ to register as a team leader or as an individual runner or walker.
Related links on UMassMedNow:
Cellucci Fund 2015 Boston Marathon team raises money, awareness for ALS research
Video: Inaugural Cellucci tribute race draws huge crowd, supports ALS research at UMMS
