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At an event thanking the supporters of the UMass Medicine Cancer Walk & 5K Run, Craig Ceol, PhD, leads a tour of his lab. |
The UMass Medicine Cancer Walk & 5K Run community gathered for a thank you reception in The Cube of the Albert Sherman Center at UMass Medical School on Wednesday, Jan. 20, to celebrate this year’s fundraising success.
Through corporate and community fundraising efforts, more than $420,000 was raised for the UMass Medicine Cancer Center to support research and patient care. During the reception, fundraisers, volunteers and corporate partners were invited to go behind the scenes to tour research laboratories and learn about the research taking place at UMass Medical School.
Following the lab tours, guests enjoyed a speaking program that featured Patrick Muldoon, president of UMass Memorial Medical Center; Michael R. Green, MD, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, the Lambi and Sarah Adams Chair in Genetic Research, professor of molecular medicine and biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, and director of the UMass Medical School Cancer Center; and Lucio Castilla, PhD, associate professor of molecular, cell & cancer biology. Tricia Campero shared the story of her 8-year-old son Christian, a cancer survivor who was treated for a rare form of childhood leukemia. Christian started his treatment, which included clinical trials at UMass Memorial in August 2012. Just this Thanksgiving, Christian finished chemotherapy and had his port removed right before Christmas.
For more information about the UMass Medicine Cancer Walk & 5K Run, visit https://umasscancerwalk.org/.
