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, December 14, 2013

First Group Run, er Walk

Mid-December in Boston must mean it's getting cold, the Somerville Jingle Bell Run is approaching (and now postponed to next weekend) and the first DFMC team run is here!  I remember this run 2 years ago as I joined DFMC for my first run.  It was an exciting day and still is exciting.  Today was the first group run and there was a great turn out of 50+ folks.  It was a cold morning, ~11F with a wind chill of -4F!!  We gathered in Lexington MA and ran the MinuteMan Trail toward Arlington Center.  This is always a great way to start the season.  Unfortunately for me, it was not a day for running with the team.

While joining the team for the announcements and camaraderie, I walked the trail for 50 minutes.  Having been battling ITBS this fall and after the Philly marathon, I decided not to push it at this point.  Taking 4 weeks off post-Philly can only help recover and rather than starting too soon, I decided to give my legs a bit more time to recover.  Come 2014, I'll be back out there knowing that I can start training in Jan and have a good race in April.  It was disappointing to not run with the team, but we all face some set backs at times and by comparison, this is nothing compared to those battling cancer.  I'll be joining the team soon enough, motivated by the 20+ donors to date and those I know battling cancer.
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