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 1, 2015

Superheroes or Super Heroes?

Unfortunately, we missed the theme for Saturday's run, but plenty of other runners didn't, nor did out volunteers.  After starting our run in temperatures above 0F (a first in the last 3 weeks!) and with bright sun, we saw plenty of 'Incredible' people along the course, as well as Wolverine, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Buzz Lightyear and many other superheroes along the course.  It was a fun and festive run with lots of runners along the course. Given the many charities people were running for, there were certainly a lot of super heroes along the course, whether they were dressed up or not.
DFMC Runners and Volunteers
Team Matty were our superheroes this weekend with plenty of gatorade, pretzels and PB cookies, along with pictures of Matty as an 'Incredible'.

Our week was started by seeing this year's singlet for DFMC!  With lots of positive feedback from last year, DFMC chose to keep a similar design, with the city of Boston 'hugging' the runners.  The colors are different but I'm glad we'll have a similar singlet to last year's for 2015!  If you're in Boston on April 20 and see this jersey going by, make sure to give a shout out to the superhero wearing it!

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