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, January 9, 2016

Longest run since April!

What a week and way to start 2016...
Donations and company matches topped $4,100 this week!  With a goal of $13,100, we're just over 8 miles into our fundraising marathon :)  Also, this $4100 total brings our 4+ year total to over $53,500 thus far!  An amazing feat that is certainly beyond what I would have expected when I first ran with DFMC in 2012.
This week a number of generous companies also donated items for our March fundraiser which will help raise even more money for DFMC!  Thank you to the following companies for supporting DFMC and our efforts!!

        





So our team run...this was my first DFMC run of the 2016 season.  It was also the furthest that I've run since the marathon in April.  After a cool and soggy 12.5 miles, I felt pretty good and was happy with the run.  It would have been great to be pain free, but similar to my return to running in the fall, I'm experiencing some soreness in the adductors/quads.  Of course my mind immediately wonders whether there's any issue with the hip, but after an MRI and CT scan in the fall, there was no indication that the stress fracture was still here.  Here's hoping that with continued strength training, stretching and massage, things begin to feel 100%.  At least there's a good group of DFMCers to run with and see every week



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