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, February 7, 2016

Minimum Reached!

Thank you to the more than 40 donors who have helped raise $5,170 for innovative cancer research through the Barr Program and Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge!!  Surpassing the $5,000 is a welcome mark as it is the minimum us runner must raise to be part of DFMC.  While $5,000 is awesome, we won't stop here.  For all the cold, snowy, windy and/or rainy days that I and others are out there training, many others are fighting their own battles in a hospital or at home all across the world. These folks continue to motivate us and are with us throughout every run.  Again, thank you for all the support thus far and here's hoping that the mild winter continues here in Boston! Onward to our goal of $13,100 for DFMC and a world without cancer!
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