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.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Track Workout & Singlet

Last night was another track workout and it was tough.  Running 400m with 200m to recover and doing this 20x is the same distance as the previous weeks, but it felt sooo much harder!  Luckily my running partners were able to maintain a consistent pace over the 400m so overall it was a good time!  While walking and talking doesn't seem tough, for some reason running and counting to 20 is pretty challenging.  We managed by alternating runners and felt that counting 20 was high enough to warrant a beer at Red Bones.  It's the simple things in life!
Then today, I arrived home and saw that my DFMC singlet had arrived!  Never run a race in a singlet so this will be a whole new experience.  Also, anyone that knows me knows how often I've tried to pull off a sleeveless shirt!  I'm sure that this will be quite the look, but at least I have 8 weeks to figure this one out, or order a Superman costume to wear underneath!
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