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Myriad Donation to Bright Pink

By Collin ⋅ October 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Last week, as a part of breast cancer awareness month and ovarian cancer awareness month, Myriad Genetics gave a donation to two organizations, Bright Pink and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC). More about the NOCC in a later post, today is about Bright Pink. Since it is breast cancer awareness month, I’m sure everyone has […]

Run For Two Johns

By Collin ⋅ February 12, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Huntsman Hometown Heroes Training run for February 11, 2012 Recap of the training run. This past Saturday was fantastic for running. The weather was warm by Salt Lake standards, there was no rain or wind like a few weeks ago, and we had plenty of sunshine. I was actually able to ditch the hat and […]

Half Way There.

By Collin ⋅ January 21, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

This last week our team hit the half way mark for our fundraising goal of $12,000. All of this momentum has mostly happened within the last month. Prior to this month, I think our team raised around $1,700 over a 2-3 month period. We really saw a shift in the fundraising this last month. I […]

I Run Because I Live

By Collin ⋅ January 19, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Jodi Vargas is one of our team members and is a previvor of cancer. She wanted to share her story below. Read her story below and then make a donation at http://bit.ly/yZjEXK I Run Because I Live… If you’ve read the “our Background”post from January 14, you are aware of the intent of Myriad employees running […]

Our Background

By Collin ⋅ January 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I wanted to take a brief moment to let you all know about a special running team we have created at Myriad Genetics. I’m sure many of you are familiar with the Ragnar Relay, Wasatch Back race. For those of you who aren’t, it is a 192 mile relay style running race that goes from […]