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MSK radiologist Andreas Wibmer
People with small amounts of brown fat have lower risk of certain obesity-related conditions, according to a retrospective study conducted by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Memorial Sloan Kettering immunologist Frederic Geissmann
Researchers discover how immune cells called macrophages regulate whether fat is stored or burned.
Lung cancer has an uncanny ability to change its identity to resist drugs. Researchers are learning what drives these changes.
Group photo of researchers Michael Berger, Marc Ladanyi, Dana Tsui, Rose Brannon, Ryma Benayed, Ahmet Zehir, and David Klimstra.
Feature
MSK-ACCESS, a blood test that can detect mutations in 129 genes related to cancer, has already helped guide the treatment of more than 2,800 patients at MSK.
Physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab
In the Lab
In mice, drugs that change the way proteins are assembled appear to make checkpoint inhibitor drugs work better.
MSK computational biologist Sohrab Shah
With the help of machine learning, computational biologists are learning to predict how cancers will evolve.
Zsofia Stadler
Finding
An analysis of patients who received molecular testing at MSK has found that about half of those with hereditary gene mutations could benefit from treatment with therapies that target those alterations.
SKI immunologist Michael Glickman
Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have pieced together the biochemical mechanism by which the tuberculosis bacterium sneaks past our immune defenses.
Developmental biologist Luis Parada
In the Lab
Sloan Kettering Institute investigators have found that a subpopulation of cells within a type of sarcoma called malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor appear to be similar to a type of neural stem cells.
Structural biologist Stephen Long in his lab
In the Lab
Sloan Kettering Institute investigators have learned how Hedgehog proteins, which are important in both development and cancer, are assembled.