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Team Kaos cyclist Marco Vasquez delivers a check to Eppley Cancer Center Director Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D. Vasquez also is a perfusionist at NHS. |
Team Kaos, the cycling team sponsored by UNMC/NHS/UMA, raised $1,200 for the Dave Babcook Memorial Foundation, as they hosted and competed in the second annual Omaha Criterium Aug. 3-4. The two-day biking event benefited the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center.
The Hanscom Park Neighborhood Association hosted the Aug. 3 races on the 0.8-mile course at Hanscom Park, 32nd and Center Sts. The Dave Babcook Memorial Circuit Race was Aug. 4 at Elmwood Park.
Dave Babcook was a cyclist, as well as a research technologist at the Eppley Institute, the basic research arm of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center. He joined the Eppley Institute in September 1984. He died in October 2000 of pancreatic cancer.
After his death, Babcook’s parents established The Dave Babcook Memorial Fund. The fund supports faculty and student research projects at the Eppley Institute, preferably for pancreatic cancer research.
In addition to competing, Team Kaos members promote races and the sport of cycling as a healthy lifestyle. Team Kaos members associated with UNMC/NHS include: Matt DeVries, Byers Shaw, Chris Spence, Marco Vasquez and Mark Emodi.