The Love4Lucas Foundation

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The Love4Lucas Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN: 83-0604592) created in honor of Lucas Harashima.  

Our mission is three-fold:

  1. To bring attention to and raise awareness of DIPG, a deadly childhood cancer that so few people have heard about

  2. To fund research specifically geared towards finding innovative treatment options and a cure for DIPG

  3. To provide financial grants to help families of children diagnosed with DIPG

All research donations will be carefully applied to innovative research that we believe will improve survival rates for children who are diagnosed with DIPG. The Love4Lucas Foundation is a community-driven nonprofit organization and our fundraising activities are executed by a dedicated team of volunteers.

Board of Directors

Hide Harashima

Hide Harashima, Lucas' dad, is the co-founder of Masa+Boz LLC, a NY based management consulting firm that helps businesses grow by unifying analytics and creativity. Hide has a background in data analytics and served as a technology officer for a number of corporate companies. He received a BA in Psychology and Pre-Medicine from Washington University in St. Louis and completed the Executive Management Program at Columbia University. Hide's duties as President of Love4Lucas Foundation will include supervision of the affairs and operations of the Foundation and keep the Board of Directors informed about the activities of the Foundation.

Sansan Harashima

Sansan Chen/Harashima, Lucas' mom, is Vice President, Product at WGSN Analytics, a next generation data, insights and advisory service and retail analytics platform. Prior to that, Sansan spent 10 years leading a suite of WGSN’s global fashion trend forecasting products after having spent 13 years in the fashion industry. She holds a (BBA) Bachelor of Business Administration, Design Marketing from Parsons School of Design. Her duties as Vice President of Love4Lucas Foundation will include leading fundraising activities for the Foundation, and managing the Foundation’s ecommerce, website and marketing strategy.

Patrick Chu

Patrick Chu is the co-founder of Edenbridge Pharmaceuticals, a NJ based specialty pharmaceutical company and currently serves as President. Patrick is an attorney by training and worked for five years at the New York law firm of Skadden Arps. His duties as a director and officer of Love4Lucas will include general legal counsel, corporate secretary, compliance, fundraising and grant oversight.

Virginia Wong

Virginia Wong is the founder and program director of FLY Center based in New York City. For over 15 years, Virginia has worked with children and adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities in educational, home, and community settings. She is a board certified behavior analyst and a New York State certified general and special education teacher. Her duties as a director and Treasurer of Love4Lucas will include establishing and supporting the mission, policies and objectives, overseeing the Foundation’s financials, ensuring ethical integrity and maintaining accountability.

Medical Advisory

Peter Kim, M.D.

Peter K. Kim, MD, MMM, FACS graduated from Harvard College and then Weill Medical College of Cornell University where he received his M.D. with Honors in Research.

During medical school he spent a year of research at the NIH with a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship. There he cloned and determined the structure of the human FADD gene and mapped FADD to Chromosome 11q13. He then completed a general surgery residency with three additional years of surgical research at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC hospitals. In 2014 he completed a Masters degree in Medical Management at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Since 2007 he has worked as a Surgery Attending at North Central Bronx Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center, two municipal hospitals in New York City. Since 2013 he has taught medical students and residents as Associate Professor of Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Kim’s important role as a medical advisor for the Love4Lucas Foundation is to seek out innovative core science and clinical applications towards a cure for DIPG.