The Chariots of Fire race is a relay race for charity that takes a scenic route through some of Cambridge's best known colleges. This year MRC Toxicology Unit members along with those from the Pharmacology Department and Gurdon Institute entered two teams, the Nucleostrides and Toxicology RuNAs.

They joined around 300 teams on an approximately 2 mile route to raise money for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, which provides vital services to seriously ill children across the UK. The Chariots of Fire race was started in 1992 to follow in the footsteps of the famous film of the same name. Since it started, over £1.48 million pounds has been raised for local and regional charities. 

Each team had six people that took it in turns to carry a baton along Silver Street and King's parade, through Trinity college, and finally past the iconic Kings college chapel. It was a great event and a chance to get to know a few of our colleagues in the Old Addenbrooke's Neighbourhood, a group of departments along Tennis Court Road consisting of the MRC Toxicology Unit, Pharmacology Department, Biochemistry Department and Gurdon Institute. Some teams took it very seriously, but our teams were racing for fun, coming a respectable 94th and 97th out of 187 in the mixed category.