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.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

History of DFMC

Being the 26th year of DFMC, I only recently heard how DFMC and the Barr Program began.  Here's a link to an article of the history and the first few paragraphs are pasted below.  Please see the running.competitor.com article for the full history...

Boston Marathon champion-turned-coach Jack Fultz didn’t entirely comprehend what he was getting involved with back in 1989.
Fultz, who studied Business Finance at Georgetown University, was also a successful collegiate track athlete for the Hoyas. Turning to the marathon once he completed his NCAA eligibility, Fultz ran a blistering 2:11:17 (4th at Boston in 1978), two years after winning the 1976 Boston Marathon in arduous 100-degree conditions, affectionately nicknamed the “Run for the Hoses.” His marathoning career began during his four-year Coast Guard stint prior to Georgetown.
Years later, as Fultz’s running career began to wane, he started coaching. While he enjoyed mentoring both high school and adult marathon runners, it wasn’t until Fultz agreed to coach his friend, Mike Silverstein, a freshman at Harvard University, for the 1989 Boston Marathon, that he had a notion of where this may all lead. He had no idea just how successful this marathon fundraising enterprise would become.

Silverstein’s close friend, Seth Feldman, then a freshman at Dartmouth College, had recently succumbed to the brain cancer that he battled at Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund Clinic.
And from here, DFMC and the Barr Program were started!
http://running.competitor.com/2015/04/boston-marathon/dana-farber-and-jack-fultz-forerunners-of-marathon-charity_126233
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