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, March 10, 2013

Ups and Downs


Union Bar & Grille Restaurant, Boston, MA

It's late on a Sunday night, we lost an hour of sleep and after running 19miles in 24 hrs, attending 2 Boston Marathon fundraisers in 24 hours and planning/shopping for my upcoming fundraisers I'm a bit exhausted.  What better way to end the day though than seeing an email from Union Bar and Grill (Link) saying that they'll be donating a $100 gift card to the fundraising raffle next week!  After seeing the success of friends' fundraisers this weekend, I am hoping that I can be that successful.


This was also a big week for another reason...donations have totaled more than $5,000 thus far!!!  A huge THANK YOU to the 68 donors who have helped reach this amazing amount and surpass the 1/2 way point in my fundraising goal!  An additional Thank You to RJ for continuing his efforts and chatting with his teachers about his experience, the Patient Partner Program and DFMC as several have also donated to support our efforts.

All that fundraising helps as yet another snow storm rolled in to Boston on Friday and caused the cancellation of another DFMC group run.  While it is disappointing, I remember vividly the run through Wayland last year in a snow storm and understand why Jack and DFMC cancelled this run.  I had a nice run around Tufts University with a number of hill repeats and followed that up today with a 5K in Davis Sq for St. Patty's Day.  Overall 2 great runs, 2 fantastic fundraisers for fellow Boston runners supporting both DFMC and the American Liver Foundation and the weekend is over.  Looking forward to another week of training and ending the week seeing RJ at the Patient Partner Poster Party, which I'll try to describe later in the week.
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