Fundraiser

PMC Bike Ride

Dear Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Patients, Family Members or Friends!

My name is Yosef Landesman Ph.D. and I am the President and Cancer Research Director of Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International (iCureASPS).

If a cure for ASPS is important for you, please become part of the community that works towards that goal!  You can do that by joining us and / or directly sponsoring clinical research in laboratories, hospitals and medical institutions that aim to find a cure for ASPS. We will be glad to give you more specific information about iCureASPS activities and on the various was in which YOU CAN HELP. Please contact me at: landesmany@yahoo.com

Thanks to the efforts of the ASPS community, the first “Cancer Vaccine” Clinical Trial (GVAX) to treat ASPS was opened in January 2005. This clinical trial was followed by the ARQ197 clinical trial, by the Pazopanib and now by the Phase 2 Cediranib clinical trial, the Phase 3 Anlotinib and the Phase 2 Axitinib and Pembrolizumab clinical trials.

We are proud to support these efforts and would like to see them continue until a cure is found. Medical research is very costly and it is the responsibility of each one of us to raise the funds needed to support the efforts of finding a cure for ASPS. In 2004, we assembled a team of bicycle riders and joined the largest single contributor to Dana-Farber’s Jimmy Fund: the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC). This bike-a-thon crosses Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber. Since 2004, Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International has raised over $600,000 exclusively for the Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and additional funds to other research institutions in the US and the world.

This year, 2024, “Team ASPS” will ride again for the 19th time! Please visit our Facebook page. Some of us will ride nearly 90 miles, and others over 160 miles. 100% of the money we raise supports efforts to find a cure for ASPS. Please let’s make sure that we do our best NOW to support these efforts.

We need your help to meet this fundraising goal. Please be a sponsor of “Team ASPS” and also ask your family and friends to support finding a cure for ASPS.

 There are two convenient ways to donate:

1. On-line donations through the PMC website. Click here to see the web page of Team ASPS in the PMC. You can select to donate to one of the members in our team. Click here to donate to “Yosef Landesman Team ASPS account“.

2. Alternatively you can write a check payable to “PMC-Team ASPS YL0002”. Mail your donations to:

Yosef Landesman
260 Tappan St
Brookline, MA 02445

Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International thanks you very much for your support!

Best Wishes,
Yosef Landesman Ph.D.

President and Cancer Research Director
Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International
e-mail: landesmany@yahoo.com

PMC Fundraising Rides 2004-2023

The PMC is a bike-a-thon that crosses Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston. In August 2008, Team AVEO joined Team ASPS in our efforts to collect funds for finding a cure for ASPS. All of the funds raised by Team ASPS go directly to ASPS research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Photos from PMC 2022

Photos from PMC 2021

Photos from PMC 2018

Photos from PMC 2017

Photos from PMC 2016

Photos from PMC 2015

Photos from PMC 2014

Photos from PMC 2013

Photos from PMC 2012

Photos from PMC 2008

Photos from PMC 2007

In the first week of August 2007, Team ASPS participated for the fourth time in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) bike ride. This bike-a-thon crosses Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston. Some of our riders rode 90 miles and others rode 150 miles. The money that our team raised is specifically dedicated to finding a cure for ASPS. The total sum collected by our team this year is 34,649 dollars. These donations will support ASPS research in three laboratories at the DFCI (to read about this research at the DFCI click this link).

One week prior to the PMC bike ride, iCureASPS hosted a private reception to honor Team ASPS riders and researchers from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

iCureASPS would like to thank the riders of Team ASPS 2007: David Eisenberg (captain of Team ASPS), Adam Eisenberg, Benji Eisenberg, Sara Eisenberg, Eugenie Gore, Ynbal Landesman, Hila Landesman, Yosef Landesman, Tim Schuettge and Katya Tsaioun. We thank our donors, good friends, family members and the ASPS community for supporting iCureASPS efforts to find a cure.

Photos below are courtesy of David Eisenberg and are copyright protected by Flickr.

Photos from PMC 2006

In August 2006 our team of bike riders participated for the third time in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) bike ride. This bike-a-thon crosses Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Some of our riders rode 90 miles and others rode 150 miles. The money that our team raises is specifically dedicated to the efforts of find cure for ASPS. The total amount of money that was collected by our team in the PMC of 2004 and 2005 was 74,412 dollars and our current fundraiser of 2006 collected more than 35,435 dollars. Our team had a milestone this year of collecting more then 100,000 dollars altogether in 3 years of participation in the PMC bike-a-thon!