I've devoted my career to fighting cancer, completing a PhD focused on breast cancer metastasis, working at companies building the next generation of cancer drugs, and most recently, finishing an intensive year of clinical care of cancer patients at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital. And over the next few years, I'll be researching novel targets and therapeutics in pancreatic cancer.

I've had the opportunity to see and treat cancer patients at every stage of their journeys over the last year, celebrating when medicines worked and commiserating when they didn't. I've been continually so impressed by the resilience of patients and their families, even in the face of difficult diagnoses and treatment plans. We owe it to them to do all we can to advance the science and medicine of cancer treatment.

This year, I'm riding to raise funds for research in multiple myeloma at DFCI. This is a disease that has had many therapeutic advances in the last few years, with many of the newest and most exciting advances in cancer drug development happening in myeloma first. Even with these advances, however, it still can be a deadly disease, and further advances are certainly needed. And because novel therapeutics in myeloma have led to adoption of those therapies in other tumor types, supporting research in myeloma supports research in other cancer types as well.

Thanks so much for your support of me, and more importantly, your support of cancer research and the patients it benefits everywhere!!