I hope you had a good week and weekend. We were supposed to travel to Burlington, Vermont, last weekend for the yearly in-person meeting of a foundation that supports cancer research in that state. I am involved because I did some of my training in Burlington and I know something about cancer. The plan was for me to attend the meeting on Monday morning, and then Harriet and I were planning to do some fall foliage leaf peeping for a day or so. But plans are made to be changed.
We learned that my brother, whom I wrote about a few weeks ago, needed a somewhat urgent medical procedure last Monday, and we felt the need to provide “coverage” in case he was discharged later that day. His wife and kids had to be in New York City because their oldest daughter’s new musical was slated to open that night. Needless to say, he was devastated to miss the opening. So, we canceled our trip and converted my participation in the Vermont meeting to a Zoom. The leaves will change again next year, so we consider this disruption to be a rain check. It’s more important to be there for the people we love. So we drove up to the Philly suburbs on Sunday and spent time with him on Monday.
Fortunately, everything went well, although our niece developed laryngitis and the show’s opening was postponed at the last minute. So, he’ll be there for the delayed opening after all. I caught up on my backlog of work on Tuesday, and then had an abbreviated rest of the workweek because of our observance of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
I’m looking forward to the coming workweek. We have a bunch of exciting things going on in the lab, with an encouraging grant review on our work with FAP regulation of NK cell tumor invasion and an addressable set of critiques from Nature Communications on recent graduate Zoe Malchiodi’s work that describes novel spatial relationships of NK cells in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Plus, I have an all-day long-distance Zoom meeting on Friday, as I am on the EAB for Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
It’s a lot of work, but it’s all good.
By the way, have you signed up to participate in BellRinger, which will be held on October 26? You can ride, volunteer or simply donate. We are closing in on 1,000 riders and hope to surpass our goal of 1,100 riders this year. You can help make this happen, and by doing so, you will support Lombardi’s research mission, one pedal revolution at a time.
It is one more way that you can make the world a better place this week.
Lou
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