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Al Roker
Health Equity and Cancer — A Conversation with Al Roker and Dr. Carol Brown

TV anchor Al Roker discusses his own prostate cancer experiences, disparities in cancer care and outcomes for people of color, the importance of cancer screening for Black men, and more with Dr. Carol Brown, a gynecological oncology surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Dr. Santosha Vardhana
MSK Experts Share Key Learnings About COVID-19

During the AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Meeting, several MSK physicians presented information about providing safe patient care, vaccines, and clinical research.
Tracy-Ann Moo
‘It’s Never Too Late for a Good Start’: Examining Race in the Medical Community

Hear from Memorial Sloan Kettering breast surgical oncologist Tracy-Ann Moo about her experience as a woman of color in medicine.
Finding
Scientists Jan Remsik, Adrienne Boire, and Jessica Wilcox in the lab
MSK Researchers Learn What’s Driving ‘Brain Fog’ in People with COVID-19

The presence of inflammatory molecules in the cerebrospinal fluid appears to be causing many of the neurologic effects seen in people with COVID-19.
Hans-Guido Wendel
Tree-Derived Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Treating COVID-19 Virus

Originally explored as a cancer drug, the tree-derived chemical is now being mined for its antiviral properties.
In the Lab
Physician-scientist Alex Kentsis
Research Shows How Common Feature of Blood Cancers Can Be Targeted

Research points to the role of a protein called MYB, which has long been known to play a role in cancer.
Direna Alonso Curbelo
Sloan Kettering Institute Scientists Learn How Genes and Environment Conspire in Pancreatic Cancer Development

The insights lay the groundwork for earlier diagnosis and better treatment of the disease.
Memorial Sloan Kettering, City College of New York Awarded $4M NIH Grant to Study the Use of Machine Learning in Early Breast Cancer Detection

Memorial Sloan Kettering and the City College of New York (CCNY) were recently awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of machine learning for early breast cancer detection in high-risk women.
Dr. Bob Li
Medical Oncologist Bob Li Featured in the Presidential Symposium at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer

Dr. Bob Li will present registrational phase II data from the first-ever trial of a drug that blocks cancer gene KRAS.
MSK immunologist Ming Li
Sloan Kettering Institute Scientists Solve a 100-Year-Old Mystery about Cancer

Scientists have long known that cancer cells and immune cells have an uncommon hunger for glucose but haven’t understood why. A new study offers an answer.