About 1,000 walkers, runners and cyclists will take part in PaceDay Oct. 4 to raise money for cancer research at the Georgia Cancer Center.
In its eighth year and sixth in-person event because of cancellations due to COVID and Hurricane Helene, Pace Day has raised more than $2.5 million and sponsored 39 community-funded, innovative cancer research projects t, according to a news release from PACELINE, an affiliate of the Medical College of Georgia Foundation..
Grants place “an emphasis on both early career faculty and high impact community research projects. This pipeline of innovative cancer research has already generated $12.5 million of prestigious ‘follow-on’ grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH)
bringing significant investment to Georgia’s only public cancer center, part of Augusta University and WellStar MCG Health. In addition, the NIH estimates the broader economic impact of these grants to be over $30 million for our region,” the release said.
PaceDay start4ed as a cycling only event with a 5K walk/run added last year.
PaceDay has been held in downtown Augusta in previous years, but because of current road construction, ride options are starting and finishing at new location: Augusta University Health Sciences Campus, 1482 Laney Walker Blvd.
Teams represented this year include Augusta National Golf Club Employees; Dental College of Georgia “DCG Smiles per Hour” and a total of seven high school teams from Columbia, Aiken and Richmond counties.
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