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Share Print "When I was running and my legs started to hurt, I reminded myself that my brother has lost a leg to cancer already,” says Sandy Freiberg, pictured. On September 13, Sandy Freiberg ran a marathon to honor his brother, Evan Freiberg, who is in his fifth year of cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Only Sandy didn’t run the race among a pack of people and with great fanfare at the finish line. He ran 26.2 miles entirely on his own. Sandy had signed up to run the 2020 TCS New York City Marathon with Fred’s Team, one of MSK’s fundraising programs...

Share Print Medical oncologist Alexander Drilon is leading the development of new targeted drugs that can control lung cancer better than ever before. Middle school chorus and orchestra teacher Melissa Crouse had lived in the Pittsburgh area her whole life. But on a trip to visit her brother in southwest Florida, she decided on a whim to apply for teaching jobs there. The single mom, then 51, quickly received an offer. “Three big things happened to me at the same time,” Melissa says. “I moved, I started a new job, and, after getting a physical for my new job, I was...

Share Print Since 2007, Alan and Sandra Gerry have supported MSK in the quest to learn more about cancer metastasis. Alan Gerry has always recognized an opportunity when he sees one. His parents both emigrated from Russia to New York City in their youth so their families could build better lives. They met while working in a garment factory on the Lower East Side and soon married and had three boys. In 1930, when Mr. Gerry was two years old, the family moved two hours north of the city to Sullivan County to escape the polio epidemic. Ten years later, his family moved bac...

Share Print Ken Manotti is Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He leads philanthropic fundraising efforts at MSK and has been in the role since 2018. Why did you choose philanthropy as a career? I had no plans to be in this profession. But many years ago, a mentor asked me to help with fundraising at the University of Pennsylvania. She was very patient and taught me how to raise money for good causes. Back to top Is it hard asking people to donate? At first, I thought: “There is no way I can ask people for money.” But it...