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.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Week 9 & Nemo

This will be quick as Nemo delivered a huge amount of snow to Boston and as such has exhausted me. When it was fairly certain that the storm was going to hit Boston on Friday, I decided to run Crossroads on Thurs night.  After a slow T ride and other issue, I missed running with other DFMCers and ran by myself around Southie for 8+ miles. It was actually a very nice run.

With Nemo dumping 24" of snow on Boston Fri PM into Sat AM, today's run was a bit difficult.  I ended up deciding to cut it short at ~7mi since I had to run in the road and more and more cars were starting to hit the roads.  Also, the plows did a decent job, but there were still some roads that were mostly slush.  Anyway, here I am after the not so quick 7mi, definitely was not breaking any speed records today...



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