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MSK pediatric neuropsychologist Stephen Sands
Q&A
At Work: Child Psychologist Stephen Sands

Learn how child psychologist Stephen Sands supports pediatric patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Petri dish with green mold on it
Science Byte
Insight into How Lungs Repel Infection Could Guide Therapies for Transplant Patients

Learn how immune cells in the lungs trigger invasive fungal cells to self-destruct. The discovery could produce therapies to prevent infection in cancer patients.
FDA Approves First CAR T Cells for Cancer

In what is being hailed as a watershed moment for both cancer care and biotechnology, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a personalized, cell-based immunotherapy for use in children and young adults with blood cancer. For more information or to arrange interviews, e-mail Caitlin Hool at [email protected].
Kenneth Offit and Vijai Joseph
Finding
Making an IMPACT: MSK’s Gene-Sequencing Test Reveals New Findings about Hereditary Cancer Risk

An analysis of germline DNA in people with advanced cancer finds that inherited mutations may be more common than expected in this group.
Pediatric oncologist Kevin Curran with CAR T patient Esmeralda Pineda
Announcement
FDA Approves First CAR T Cell Therapy for Leukemia

Children, teens, and young adults with leukemia that have stopped responding to chemotherapy are the first eligible to receive the new treatment.
A network of neurons
Finding
Is Neurodegenerative Disease a Kind of Cancer?

New findings from experiments done in mice suggest a surprising cause of common neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Rebecca Nadler
Event
Making the Grade: 26 High School Students Present Their Research in Poster Session

Twenty six high school students gathered in the lobby of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center on August 25 to present on the research they completed over the previous eight weeks.
Surgeon in blue scrubs doing operation with two assisting.
In the Clinic
Guiding Light: New Imaging Techniques Improve Head and Neck Cancer Surgeries

MSK head and neck surgeons are investigating novel imaging methods that enable them to detect and visualize cancer cells during an operation.
Rack of blood vials
Finding
Secondary Leukemia: Research Suggests New Ways to Understand What Causes This Side Effect of Cancer Treatment

MSK investigators find that the presence of certain gene mutations in patients’ blood may mean they are more likely to get a secondary leukemia.
Illustration of human neck and head with thyroid gland highlighted and tumor growing on gland.
Science Byte
Breaking Bad: Researchers Find Mutations that Turn Thyroid Cancers Deadly

MSK researchers identify mutations that convert nonthreatening thyroid tumors into aggressive cancers.