Samuel C. Blackman, MD, PhD is Associate Director of Experimental Medicine/Oncology at Merck Research Laboratories and an attending physician in pediatric oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  He completed a combined pediatric hematology/oncology and pediatric neuro-oncology program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston in 2007 and is currently focused on cancer drug discovery at Merck & Co., Inc.  He and his wife, Julie McNeill, rode in the 2006 and 2007 Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for pediatric oncology and neuro-oncology programs at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  Together they raised over $130,000.  Please click here to make a donation to this important effort.