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, January 28, 2015

Juno throws us a wrench & 20+ inches!

Sidewalks around Somerville
Between the snow storm on Saturday and yesterday's blizzard, we've certainly had a bunch of snow.  With the DFMC run canceled, some teammates went out on Saturday in the snowstorm.  I made the decision to wait until Sunday.  While I avoided the snow and wind, there was no avoiding the sidewalks, and in some cases the lack of effort people put into shoveling the sidewalks.  I didn't make it quite as far as planned, but a well-earned egg sandwich capped off the 11-mile run.

While Juno was not a top 5 storm for Boston, 20+ inches of snow will certainly cause some headaches over the next few weeks as training for the marathon ramps up.  The storm prevented us from getting a run in, but shoveling for 2+ hours had to count for something, right?  At least we have a 5ft snow pile to watch melt in the upcoming weeks.

Our snow pile, and only ~1/3 of what we actually shoveled
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