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, March 10, 2018

Another 15 miles done

With only 36 days to go, we're getting into the higher mileage weeks for training.  This week included a speed workout on Tuesday (3 x 2miles).  I had planned to run on Thursday as well, but after the nor'easter dropped 6" of heavy wet snow on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, I decided to take Thursday evening as a indoor training day.  With some 40F temps since then, this morning's training run went well, though it was a bit windy.  I got through my 15 miles though ran a bit faster than I probably should have, more of a race pace run rather than pacing for a long run.  Overall I felt pretty good.
What made the training run even better was coming home to find 2 new donations that put us over $7,500, more than half way to the $15,000 goal for 2018!  With 36 days to go, reaching $15,000 is certainly possible.  Thank you to everyone who has supported my 2018 DFMC efforts and with just 5 weeks to go, we'll finish strong!
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