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Stephen W. Fesik, professor of biochemistry, pharmocology, and chemistry at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, presented audience members with a series of proteins that bind to other proteins and may serve as viable treatments for cancer patients in the future at yesterday’s 14th Andrew H. Weinberg Memorial Lecture at Harvard Medical School...
Friedman, who passed away in October 2008 after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, used his $3,000 from Make-A-Wish to buy electronics and games to help other kids deal with the boredom and loneliness of hospital stays. After realizing the success of his charity, the then-16 year old created the Mikey’s Way Foundation, a non-profit that organizes a similar initiative for hospitals in New York, Connecticut, and Boston...
...Cancer research [and] all those foundations that deal with tomorrow are wonderful. But these kids are suffering today,” Les Friedman said. “My dream would be to do 52 Mikey’s Way Days a year...
...Mark A. Isaacson ’11, a Crimson editorial columnist, said that he and other friends plan to work next fall to give Mikey’s Way a sustainable presence on the Harvard campus through creating a Harvard chapter of the foundation and possibly partnering with the Cancer Society...
Friedman, who is remembered as an optimist by his friends, did not talk much about Mikey’s Way or his own battle with cancer during his time at Harvard. Emily S. Shire ’11, a friend of Friedman’s and an inactive Crimson magazine editor, said that she did not know about his cancer until nearly the end of their freshman year...