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In the Lab
Illustration of how PU-PET localizes to tumors
Bull’s-Eye: Imaging Technology Could Confirm When a Drug Is Going to the Right Place

Collaborative team advances a new approach for imaging a drug that’s been developed to stop cancer growth.
Feature
Model of TGF-beta molecule
An Old Protein Gets a New Look: Researchers Target TGF-ß to Make Immunotherapy More Effective

Drugs that block the action of TGF-ß may make checkpoint inhibitors more effective.
Roundup
ASH meeting signage
Advances in Myeloma, Lymphoma, and Bone Marrow Transplant Announced at the 2018 ASH Meeting

Learn more about the work of MSK researchers being presented at the 2018 meeting of the American Society of Hematology.
Finding
Jonathan Peled speaks during a press conference
Gut Microbes May Protect People Having Bone Marrow Transplants

For the first time, researchers have found an association between the makeup of the microorganisms in the body before a bone marrow transplant and a patient’s survival afterward.
In the Clinic
Jedd Wolchok and Charlotte Ariyan in the lab
Chemotherapy-Immunotherapy Combination Aims to Knock Out Melanoma with a One-Two Punch

A new approach for treating melanoma combines the immunotherapy drug ipilimumab with chemotherapy that treats only the area affected by cancer.
In the Clinic
Medical oncologist Jae Park
Longest-Running CAR T Trial Shows Which Patients Benefit Most, Have Fewest Side Effects

The study represents 20 years of research at MSK.
In the Clinic
CAR T cell therapy
CAR T Cell Therapies Are a Growing Area of Research

Cell therapies that use patients’ own immune cells to attack cancer — including CAR T cell therapy, an approach developed at MSK — are a promising and rapidly growing area of research.
Q&A
Epigenetics
Setting Cancer Cells on the Right Path: A New Leukemia Drug Shows Growing Promise

An experimental drug for acute myelogenous leukemia might potentially help many more patients than previously thought by controlling epigenetic processes, according to a recent MSK study.
Finding
Michel Sadelain and Prasad Adusumilli
Immunotherapy Shows Promise for Treating Solid Tumors in the Chest

A study in mouse models suggests how modified T cells may be used to treat tumors in the area just outside the lungs.
Finding
MSK investigators Michael Berger and David Solit.
Study Reveals How Some Breast Cancers Become Resistant to Targeted Drugs

A study of one patient’s disease has clarified why tumors stop responding to a class of experimental drugs called PI3K inhibitors.