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, December 31, 2015

Reflecting on 2015

As 2015 draws to a close, some things went as planned while some others were quite unexpected.  DFMC #4 was another successful year, 150+ donors generously donating over $13,800 for the Claudia Adams Barr Program at Dana-Farber.  I won't soon forget the training season and the historic winter in Boston, nor finishing the marathon with a stress fracture.  Luckily I've recovered well and DFMC #5 is off to a good start with 28 donors helping raise $2,979 thus far.  To balance the record snow earlier this, I ran on Christmas Eve in weather that was too warm (65F)!  Overall, it was not the year that I imagined, but one that I won't forget.

Goals for 2016...
-Celebrate RJ's (my patient partner) graduation from high school
-Complete my 5th DFMC, with a goal of raising $13,100 for innovative cancer research
-Successfully train for and complete the Boston Marathon
-Successfully train for and complete my first 70.3 triathlon
-Train, stretch and strengthen to minimize risk of injury
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