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Scientist Gabriela Chiosis in her lab
In the Lab
Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers are studying how drugs that reverse malfunctioning proteins may treat disease.
Memorial Sloan Kettering surgeon Prasad Adusumilli
Q&A
A combination immunotherapy approach using CAR T cells could be an effective new way to treat mesothelioma.
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.