To the Editor: 

We have good news and better news! Since 1996 Princeton has been supporting the annual Great Strides Walk to Cure Cystic Fibrosis. The good news is that the donations to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation have supported the development of kalydeco, the first medicine ever developed to treat the mechanism of a disease at the molecular level. Our son, David is taking it and he is able to breathe without effort!

The better news is that there are three more medicines being tested which could treat all the genetic forms of cystic fibrosis. We hope, with your continued help, to be able to eliminate the “fatal” part of the description from cystic fibrosis by 2017. More information is available at www.cff.org.

Please mark your calendars and join us on May 12 for the Great Strides Walk to really cure cystic fibrosis!

Mary, Paul, John, Janae, Meghan, Matthew, and David Gerard
Talbot Lane