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Every year, the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) awards fellowships to students who show promise in their scientific endeavors at GSK.

… Thursday, September 15, 2022 Every year, the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) awards fellowships to students who show promise in their scientific endeavors at GSK. These fellowships, which are based on academic excellence, are made possible by generous philanthropic

New research from scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute helps explain how growing tumors escape our immune defenses.

… Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Summary Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists are learning more about why immune cells sometimes fail to fight cancer. It’s a mystery how a growing tumor escapes destruction by the immune system. Our immune cells are typically very good at recognizing altered or foreign cells

A collaboration between a nanotechnology scientist and a visual artist leads to a promising diagnostic test and a new art form.

… Thursday, August 22, 2019 Summary MSK nanotechnology researcher Daniel Heller recently worked with an artist to create nanotube-based paints that can be used to test for cancer and diabetes — and to make a new form of visual art. A collaboration between Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers and an artist

Learn about the connection between radon and the risk of lung cancer.

… Monday, March 18, 2024 Most people have heard about radon being a health hazard. It is important to fully understand the danger it poses. Radon is a radioactive gas given off by soil, rock, and water. It results from the breakdown of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in uranium buried deep underground

Infórmese sobre la relación entre el radón y el riesgo de cáncer pulmonar.

… Monday, March 18, 2024 La mayoría de las personas han oído que el radón es un riesgo para la salud. Es importante entender completamente el peligro que representa. El radón es un gas radioactivo que emana del suelo, las rocas y el agua. Resulta de la descomposición de isótopos radioactivos naturales

MSK experts participated in the 2021 People v. Cancer summit, hosted by The Atlantic, which explored the latest in cancer research and the important ways in which prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and well-being are interrelated.

… Tuesday, November 23, 2021 The 2021 People v. Cancer summit, hosted by The Atlantic, explored the latest in cancer research and the important ways in which prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and well-being are interrelated. Even in the midst of a global pandemic, progress continues to be made toward not

New Lymphoma Service Chief Gilles Salles discusses his plans for research and collaborations at MSK.

… Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Summary Meet Lymphoma Service Chief Gilles Salles, who recently joined MSK after a long career in France. Gilles Salles recently joined Memorial Sloan Kettering as Chief of the Lymphoma Service within the Division of Hematologic Malignancies . Dr. Salles came to MSK after

… Friday, December 8, 2017 Summary More than 20 MSK physicians and researchers presented work at an annual breast cancer conference in San Antonio. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) is marking its 40th anniversary this week. The annual conference has grown from a small gathering and now brings

Luis Felipe Somarribas Patterson joined the Santosha Vardhana Lab as a postdoc in 2021. He investigates how metabolism influences different cell types, including immune cells, and conducts research into “exhausted T cells,” a state of T cell dysfunction that arises during chronic infections and cancer.

… Wednesday, October 5, 2022   Luis Felipe Somarribas Patterson  joined the  Santosha Vardhana Lab  in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program as a postdoc in 2021. He investigates how metabolism influences different cell types, including immune cells, and conducts

Six young scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medical College have been named the inaugural winners of a new prize established to recognize postdoctoral investigators in the life sciences. The Tri-Institutional Breakout Awards for Junior Investigators, which include a $25,000 prize for each recipient, were established by three Tri-Institutional winners of the 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Science — one from each of the three institutions — with additional financial support from the institutions themselves.

… Monday, June 15, 2015 Six young scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medical College have been named the inaugural winners of a new prize established to recognize postdoctoral investigators in the life sciences. The Tri-Institutional Breakout