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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.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Surf City 1/2 Marathon Completes Week 8

Well, between lots of things going on at work and lots of training runs, traveling to LA and other activities, this will be a short update for the last week.  First, fund raising is continuing along and thanks to some more generous donations this past week, I'm now within $100 of the $4,000 mark!  Very exciting and a tremendous thanks to the 40+ people who have donated thus far!

Training has continued in this cold winter.  After the run with the November Project last week on Wed AM, Amy and I caught a plane on Thurs to head to LA and visit Kim and Todd.  We had a nice visit and really enjoyed the sun and warmer weather.  It was great to drive along Rte 1 and the Pacific Coast Highway, see a number of beaches and have a few drinks outside.  It was also great to catch up with Mike and Cisca and meet Michael down in Seal Beach.  All of this was in addition to running the Surf City 1/2 on another fabulous day.  Race temps were in the 60s but full sun.  That said, Kim and Todd cheered us along at miles 3 & 5 and finishing around 2:01:30 hrs was both a great race for Amy and I and a PR for Amy!  A great way to start Super Bowl Sunday and way to wrap up the trip.  I'll try to post pics once I have time.

Some other races are approaching but for this week, I'm back to the speed workouts at Tufts tonight (8 x 800m, total distance of 7 miles) and hopefully Crossroads on Thursday, though we'll see.  Overall, feeling good and looking forward to more DFMC training runs in the coming weeks.
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