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Maria Jasin
Developmental Biologist Maria Jasin Wins the 2025 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize

Dr. Maria Jasin, whose fundamental research on repair of damaged DNA in cells has transformed our understanding of cancers linked to inherited gene mutations, was selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize — the preeminent international award recognizing outstanding women scientists.
Medical illustration of nanoparticle spheres attacking cancer cell, which is beginning to disintegrate.
In the Lab
Nanoparticles Help Drugs Target Head and Neck Cancers with Reduced Side Effects

Researchers devised a novel method to ferry drugs to head and neck cancers using nanoparticles that naturally stick to a protein in tumor blood vessels.
Sandy wearing an orange tank top and running.
Fred’s Team Is Running Strong Despite Marathon Cancelation

Read about Sandy Freiberg, who ran a marathon to honor his brother, Evan, who is in his fifth year of cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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MSK Research Highlights, April 26, 2024

New MSK research provides two examples of computational tools developed at MSK that leverage data about cells’ locations to expand our understanding of cancer.
Researchers Russell Kunes, Thomas Walle, and Dana Pe'er
MSK Researchers Develop New Open-Source Method To Improve Decoding of Single-Cell Data

MSK researchers have developed a new open-source computational method, dubbed Spectra, which improves the analysis of single-cell transcriptomic data — and made it freely available to researchers around the world.
Medical oncologist Bob Li in front of a grey background
Perspective
An MSK Doctor’s Journey: Drawing Strength from Diversity, Despite Attacks on the Asian Community

In 2014, Bob Li was a medical oncology clinical research fellow at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, one of the best in the country. His...
MSK financial services specialist Charlene Jerome smiling
Superhero of Hope: Charlene Jerome 

As a financial services specialist at MSK, Charlene Jerome helps patients overcome financial barriers to treatment by hunting for free drugs, deep discounts, and financial aid so patients can focus on healing.
Doctors operating
New Facility Eases Patient Experience and Promotes Collaborative Treatment and Research

On June 7 when Memorial Sloan Kettering opened a facility housing the novel Center for Image-Guided Interventions, a suite of endoscopy rooms, and new operating rooms for the Surgical Day Hospital.
Pictured: Maria Jasin
Studies Provide New Insight into Fundamental Biological Process

Developmental biologist Maria Jasin studies homologous recombination, which is important in DNA repair and can lead to cancer when it malfunctions.
MSK Postdoc Siting Gan
Sloan Kettering Institute Postdoc Spotlight: Siting Gan, Massagué and Pe'er Labs

Siting Gan has the heart of a rebel. Although she focused on physics in high school in Beijing, China, where she grew up, and chose to major in physics in college, she knew that she “wanted to do research and discover things myself.” That determination to pursue her own questions led her to biology and, ultimately, to a unique situation at Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI).