Greetings:

There are more than 30,000 Americans living with cystic fibrosis. Our son, William, is one of them.

The Adair family is committed to GREAT STRIDES on May 16, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s annual walk to raise funds to find a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF). We are writing to enlist your support to help William.

Thanks to fund-raisers like GREAT STRIDES, incredible breakthroughs continue to be made. William is benefitting from a newer drug – Trikafta - that is helping maintain his strong lung function. We owe such advances to those who have contributed to our fight. However, there is still work to be done. Since we began this journey 22 years ago, life expectancy for people with CF has increased to an average age of the mid-40s. Still too short!

Thankfully, William is doing well. He is living in South Carolina, pursuing a PhD in chemistry at the University of South Carolina. Thanks to your generous support, new drugs like Trikafta have helped William cut out some of the medicine he started as a baby. We continue to be amazed by these marvelous, medical advances.

Because the CF population is so small, all research for new therapies, drugs etc. is privately funded through fundraisers like this. Dedicated researchers, supported by the CF Foundation, have made tremendous advances in the knowledge about the defective gene that causes CF, its protein product and special characteristics of the CF cell. This knowledge, in turn, has led to more novel new therapies that are under development than ever before.

Thank you for your prayers and support.