BOSTON, MA – Shawmut participated in the 2015 Pan-Mass Challenge, making it the eighth straight year the firm has ridden in the two-day bike-a-thon. This year, Team Shawmut has raised $159,232 and counting—a record for the team—for the research being conducted by Dana-Farber’s Dr. Christopher Sweeney.
Team Shawmut included CEO Les Hiscoe and 25 Shawmut employees and friends, including Dr. Sweeney and three of his cancer patients. The team rode from Sturbridge to Provincetown to increase awareness and funding for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
To date, Team Shawmut’s fundraising efforts have enabled Dr. Sweeney to create a unique database of cancer specimen that allows his team to find the key causes of incurable cancer, and test a new drug designed to make standard therapies more effective.