About LMRF

LMRF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity organization founded in 2006 to support medical research through fundraising events. Its beneficiaries focus on pathology that impairs and shortens one's quality of health in the latter third of life. The goal is to implement relatively new knowledge about the ill effects of aging to target normally benign metabolic by-products and damage that, with time, become precursors to age-related pathology.

Currently we help raise funds for an innovative strategy targeting a recently verified early precursor of atherosclerosis, based on current strategies for treating lysosomal storage diseases.

If the approach is fruitful, it will likely be modified and turned on a similar precursor of age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), the leading cause of blindness in those over 50 and another likely result of a lysosomal build-up.

LMRF also helps fund research to test the benefits of preventing cumulative intracellular free radical damage. The innovation here is a recent understanding that free radical damage to the mitochondrial genome may significantly accelerate the ill effects of aging by turning a small proportion of the body's cells into prolific exporters of free radicals.

Currently LMRF’s primary source of donations is charity sporting events like the Tour de Sussex, a bike tour held in northern New Jersey.

In 2007, LMRF would like to raise enough funds to increase its annual pledge to its beneficiaries to $10,000 per year.

The Broader Picture

Tax-exemption Status