Family of tragic Glasgow DJ who died from childhood cancer launch research fund
The family of a young DJ who died from a rare form of childhood bone cancer have set up a research fund in her memory.
Niamh Jobson, a Glasgow-based DJ and model, passed away aged 22 in Hong Kong on January 17.
She had been battling osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, for seven years.
Despite enduring chemotherapy and losing her leg to the disease, she moved to Glasgow and became a prominent figure in the city's music scene.
Her family has set up the Niamh Jobson Research Fund to raise money to advance crucial research and treatments for osteosarcoma - which mainly affects children and young adults.
The initiative will launch at Glasgow's SWG3 on Saturday, June 28 and feature sets from artists Kairogen, Danny Greenman, Timescape, VXYX, Harry Mawby and LAZLO who all shared the stage with Niamh.
Niamh became well known for producing and playing dance music in Glasgow in iconic dance venue Sub Club.
Her family and fellow artists say they continue to feel her absence every day but through the research fund, they hope to turn grief into action.
Her brother, Finn Jobson, described her as 'my best friend and partner in crime". He said: "I will never get over the loss of my best friend. Watching her suffer from this heinous disease, while powering through with her impressive and promising career cut far too short by osteosarcoma.
"Creating this fund and launching it in a very 'Niamh' manner, we will be able to assist her dream of helping kids in this position get another chance at life, while also pushing her unique underground club techno sound to the people of Glasgow. She was my partner in crime and we will carry on living like Niamh."
Her dad Jonathan previously told how she had been taken to casualty aged 16 after experiencing pains in her leg. Doctors discovered a tumour on her leg which spread to her lungs.
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He said: 'She was in agony. She couldn't walk up the stairs.'
She had her leg amputated and was fitted with a prosthetic months before she died.
Paying tribute to their daughter at the time, her family said: "It is with the most insurmountable pain that we take this time and space to inform you all that our hugely gifted, talented, intuitive, wise, fiercely clever, funny, sparkly, stunningly beautiful legend of a girl, Niamh Jobson, died on Friday, 17th January 2025 in Hong Kong, a few short miles from where she was born.
"Today (22nd) is her 23rd birthday. Please, wherever you are in the world, whatever you are doing, join us in celebrating our much loved Queen today. We will be in touch in the coming weeks to inform you of further arrangements. Thank you and much love to you all. Rest in Glory our Queenie. We love you with all our might. Mumma, Dad, Finn & Betsy-Mae."
Tickets for the SWG3 event can be purchased at https://ra.co/events/2154834 with all money raised going to the research fund.
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