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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Receives Record Gift of $150 million from David Koch for Innovative Patient Care Facility

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center announced that it has received the largest gift in its history, a commitment of $150 million from long-time MSK board member David H. Koch. This unprecedented contribution will transform cancer care with a state-of-the-art outpatient medical facility to be known as The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care. The new center will provide the most advanced cancer treatments in a dynamic space designed with the needs of patients firmly in mind.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center “Specializes in You” with an Innovative and Personalized Digital Landscape

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center introduced a new, consumer-friendly web presence for www.mskcc.org (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and www.sloankettering.edu (Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), featuring an innovative platform and on-demand navigation for patients, caregivers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and graduate students, among other core audiences.
Two Promising Memorial Sloan Kettering Studies Featured at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

Two encouraging Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) studies were featured in this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting press program.
Research Proves Combination Immunotherapy Significantly More Effective than Ipilimumab Alone for Patients with Advanced Melanoma

Positive results from a clinical trial published in <em>The New England Journal of Medicine</em> show that the combination of the immunotherapy drugs ipilimumab (Yervoy<sup>™</sup>) and nivolumab (Opdivo<sup>™</sup>), produced significantly better outcomes than ipilimumab alone in patients with advanced melanoma. A second piece in the same issue from MSK details a dramatic response occurring after a single dose of the combination therapy.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Opens Pediatric CAR T Cell Clinical Trial

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are pioneering a new groundbreaking clinical trial for children and young adults with relapsed or treatment-resistant acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) by using one of the most promising methods of cancer treatment today, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells.
Some Cancer Clinics Spend Thousands More Per Patient in Medicare Dollars

The quantity of tests and treatments a cancer patient undergoes could depend largely on where he or she receives care, according to an analysis by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell to Co-Lead Tuberculosis Research Unit

In an effort to stop tuberculosis (TB) from becoming progressively less treatable worldwide, the National Institutes of Health is funding a research collaboration among six institutions in close alliance. The total funding, provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, could be up to $45.7 million over seven years.
Pictured: Eytan Stein
Memorial Sloan Kettering Study Shows New Kind of Targeted Drug Has Promise for Leukemia Patients

A new type of cancer therapy that targets an oncometabolite produced dramatic results in patients with advanced leukemia in an early-phase clinical trial.
Pictured: Craig Moskowitz
Positive Data from Pivotal Phase III Study Could Improve Standard of Care for Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients

In a late-stage clinical trial, Hodgkin lymphoma patients who received brentuximab vedotin post-transplant lived longer without disease progression than patients who received only supportive care.
Studies Led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Investigators Show Immunotherapy Drugs Improve Outcomes in Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients

A number of scientific breakthroughs have led to the development of drugs that unleash the power of the immune system to recognize and attack cancer. For Classical Hodgkin lymphoma patients, two phase I studies are already demonstrating dramatic results.