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Pictured: Daniel Heller
Video
Learn about Daniel Heller, who creates new nanoscale materials that are specially designed to improve biological research or solve clinical problems.
Blood vessels supply tumors with the nutrients they need to grow.
Decoder
What Is Angiogenesis?
Cancer biologist Robert Benezra explains angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels form, and how it relates to cancer research.
Pictured: Jan Grimm
In the Lab
Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers are investigating the use of tiny particles that behave like sponges to take in drugs and deliver them to tumors.
Pictured: Cancer cell on blood vessel
In the Lab
Researchers have gained new understanding of how tumors metastasize by studying the behavior of exceptional breast and lung cancer cells that are capable of entering the brain and surviving there.
Radiation oncologist and CyberKnife expert Abraham Wu
Ask the Expert
Why Am I Hearing So Much About CyberKnife?
CyberKnife is a brand name for one of several available stereotactic radiosurgery devices that deliver radiation with linear accelerators. MSK uses a similar device, made by a company called Varian, that destroys tumors with extremely precise, very intense doses of radiation.
Simon Powell
Profile
Meet Radiation Oncologist Simon Powell
Simon Powell leads the Department of Radiation Oncology and focuses in his research on the treatment of breast cancer, including the role of DNA repair deficiencies in breast cancer and breast cancer genetics.
Pharmacist and herbalist Simon Yeung
Ask the Expert
Pharmacist and herbalist Simon Yeung gives consumers tips on how to determine whether an herb or dietary supplement contains what’s indicated on the label.
Pictured: Jedd Wolchok & Alexander Rudensky
Announcement
Immunologist Alexander Rudensky and medical oncologist and immunologist Jedd Wolchok are investigating innovative ways to use the immune system to fight cancer.
Pictured: Stem cell-derived nerve cells exposed to progerin
In the Lab
A team of Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists has come up with an approach to make stem-cell-derived neurons rapidly age in a cell culture dish. The breakthrough could transform research into Parkinson’s and other late-onset diseases.
Cancer research pioneer Janet Rowley
In Memoriam
Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig Thompson reflects on the life and career of cancer research pioneer Janet Rowley.