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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is now recognized as the first dedicated cancer center in the United States to be designated as a qualified provider-led entity (QPLE) under Medicare’s program for appropriate use criteria (AUC). This designation allows MSK to establish best practice standards for the use of CT scans, MRI, and nuclear medicine imaging from initial screening and diagnosis through all stages of cancer care, including survivorship.

Joan Massagué, Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards.

Research led by Josie Robertson Investigator Karuna Ganesh provided clues that microbiomes might explain the increase in colorectal cancer among younger patients.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has announced that Oren Cahlon, MD, a renowned radiation oncologist and expert in proton therapy, will assume the position of Associate Deputy Physician-in-Chief for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Regional Care Network. With this appointment, which is effective immediately, Dr. Cahlon will help oversee the network’s outpatient clinical programs, which span seven locations across New York and New Jersey.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a Breakthrough Therapy Designation to cobimetinib in treatment of patients with histiocytic neoplasms (HN) (Erdheim-Chester Disease, Rosai-Dorfman, Langerhans Histiocytosis), who do not harbor the BRAF V600 mutation. Cobimetinib is an oral inhibitor of MEK1 and MEK2 currently approved to treat melanoma. This designation was granted based on data submitted by MSK, in collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, from a phase II trial of single-agent cobimetinib for adults with histiocytic disorders (published in Nature in March 2019 by Eli Diamond, MD; Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD; and David Hyman, MD).

MSK President and CEO, Craig B. Thompson, MD, has been named a founding member of the New York Jobs CEO Council. Dr. Thompson joins CEOs from 27 of the largest employers in New York in the new CEO-led, action-oriented coalition.

Scientists are dusting off their biochemistry textbooks in the hunt for clues to cancer.

Cell biologist Michael Overholtzer will succeed DNA replication expert Ken Marians.