About Me

My Goal: Run the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2019 with the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. Raise $17,000 (or more!) where 100% of funds raised benefit the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. I run in honor of my friend Chris Davie who is battling brain cancer. I also run in honor for my friend RJ and his continued cancer-free life, in memory of Heather Thomson, and for other family and friends who are or have battled cancer. Together we can help Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reach the ultimate finish line: a world without cancer

Barr Program Impact Statements

Barr Program Impact Statements

Immunotherapies: New Ways to Activate the Immune System—An important area of cancer research asks why the human body's defense systems do not always attack and destroy tumors as they form. Funded by the Claudia Adams Barr Program, Glenn Dranoff, MD, discovered complex regulatory pathways in the human immune system that cancers exploit in order to escape destruction. Reversal of these effects can lead to the development of vaccines against cancer, like Provenge for prostate cancer. This research has also enabled the development of immune-activating drugs such as ipilimumab, which showed striking effects in melanoma in a trial led by Dana-Farber scientists and is now approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Crossroads, Group Run #5 and Match Party

This week was a busy week, between the speed workout, running the Newton Hills on Thursday PM, then another group run today.  On top of that, this afternoon is the Patient Partner Program Meet Your Match party. Given the activities, summaries will be brief...
Crossraods - Runners (DFMC, other charity teams, non-charity runners) meet at the bar and then head to one of the T stops on the D-line.  If you go all the way to Woodland and run back in, it's ~9mi with most of it along the course route.  The big plus is getting more work on the Newton Hills.  It was my first time doing this and it was a great run.  Some snow, sleet and rain made it a bit wet, but running with a teammate was really nice.  The hills were challenging after a long day of work, but great to get them in.  After finishing at Crossroads, more time to chat with people over beer and pizza.  Definitely something that I'll do again!
Group Run #5 - We met in Lexington today at the Greater Boston Running Co and ran the Minute Man Trail.  What a difference in the weather from last week...sunny, a slight breeze and ~40F, great weather for a run! Much better weather today made conversations easy and I spent the run chatting with a teammate from Boulder CO. We did 5 miles toward Arlington, back to Lexington and then 2 miles in the opposite direction and back for a nice 14mi run. Oh, and the fun part was running across I95/128.  Guess runners are an easy group to impress if running a bridge above a 6 lane highway is the highlight of a run :)
K, off to the DFMC Match Party in a bit!
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