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Yonina Murciano-Goroff, Jenny Xue, Bob Li, Piro Lito, and Yulei Zhao.
MSK Researchers Are Learning Why Some Patients Develop Resistance to Targeted Lung Cancer Drug

A paper from MSK researchers reports that resistance to sotorasib, a new targeted drug for lung cancer, can be caused by many different molecular changes.
Paul Marks Prize 2021 winners
Twenty Years Of Honoring A Legacy: Three Investigators Named Winners of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s 2021 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is proud to announce three innovative investigators as the recipients of this year’s Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research.
Scientists Learn More about How Lung Cancer Becomes Resistant to Drugs

By switching from one cellular identity to another, lung cancer cells can evade targeted therapies. MSK scientists are trying to stop that from happening.
Charles Rudin and Dana Pe'er
Molecular Atlas of Small Cell Lung Cancer Reveals Unusual Cell Type That Could Explain Why It’s So Aggressive

Stem-like cells that make up only a tiny fraction of the total cells in a lung tumor could be the key to stopping the disease’s deadly spread, say researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Justin Perry, PhD
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Justin Perry Honored with Distinguished NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Justin Perry, PhD, cell biologist and immunologist of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) has been named a recipient of the 2021 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.
Katharine Hsu and Rosa Sottile
Unusual Immune Cell Type Could Be Good Target for Immunotherapy

Part natural killer, part T cell, this hybrid immune cell has a “double sword” for fighting cancer.
Dana Pe'er, PhD
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Dana Pe’er Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Dana Pe’er, PhD, computational biologist and lab head at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI), is one of 33 biomedical researchers named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator today.
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Zhongmin Wang
2021 Chairman’s Prize Honors Research That Paves Way for New Cell-Based Therapies to Treat Autoimmune Diseases and Inflammation

Meet Zhongmin Wang, a fifth-year doctoral student in the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK), who has been awarded the 2021 Chairman’s Prize.
Direna Alonso-Curbelo, PhD
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Direna Alonso-Curbelo Named 2021 Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists Winner

Direna Alonso-Curbelo, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI), has been named a winner of the 2021 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in the “Life Sciences” category.
Man holding an IUD
To Detect Ovarian Cancer Early, Researchers Look to Nanotechnology

Could an implantable IUD help detect cancer early, when it is most curable? Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute are betting yes.