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Discover where three recent Gerstner Sloan Kettering graduates are now and learn about the research they’re pursuing.

… Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Gerstner Sloan Kettering graduate James Mahaffey works in a lab at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU School of Medicine exploring the RAS gene, which is mutated in nearly a third of cancers but has resisted targeting with drugs. James Mahaffey studies RAS, a gene that is

Memorial Sloan Kettering’s suburban presence is expanding with its newest and largest state-of-the-art facility set to welcome patients on October 6 in West Harrison, New York.

… Wednesday, October 1, 2014 VIDEO | 04:30 Virtual Tour of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Westchester Take a virtual tour of our suburban outpatient location and hear from our doctors on the benefits of receiving care at MSK Westchester. Video Details Memorial Sloan Kettering’s suburban presence

Experiments with zebrafish and human pluripotent stem cells reveal the necessary ingredients, besides genetic mutations, that fuel the development of melanoma.

… Friday, September 3, 2021 Right now, in your body, lurk thousands of cells with DNA mistakes that could cause cancer. Yet only in rare instances do these DNA mistakes, called genetic mutations, lead to a full-blown cancer. Why? The standard explanation is that it takes a certain number of genetic “hits

… Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the following awards and appointments: Omar Abdel-Wahab Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Omar Abdel-Wahab Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD , Chair of the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute

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.

… Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Justin Perry, PhD , cell biologist and immunologist of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) has been named one of 64 recipients of the prestigious 2021 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award . As part of the award, Dr. Perry

Learn more from Andrea Cercek about a new study showing that colorectal cancer rates are increasing in younger people.

… Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Summary MSK expert Andrea Cercek discusses findings from a new study showing rising colorectal cancer rates among people in their 20s and 30s. Though the overall incidence of colorectal cancer has been on the decline in the US for years, it is increasing among individuals in

Read about a new CAR T cell therapy now approved for marginal zone lymphoma (MZL).

… Friday, December 12, 2025 Marginal zone lymphoma is a slow-growing, rare form of  non-Hodgkin lymphoma that usually responds well to initial therapies. But in some patients, the disease keeps returning despite multiple treatments. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new therapy

New MSK research reports encouraging results for a new liposarcoma treatment; describes more potent CAR T cells that can be given at lower doses; relates a new way of making drug-delivery nanoparticles more efficient; identifies CAR T cells that activate at the tumor site; and sheds light on how — in very rare cases — a CAR T cell treatment might lead to a new cancer arising.

… Thursday, February 6, 2025 New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) reports encouraging results for a new liposarcoma treatment; describes more potent CAR T cells that can be given at lower doses; relates a new way of making drug-delivery nanoparticles more efficient; identifies

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), in collaboration with an international research team and the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, have found that abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected more cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breast tissue.

… Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), in collaboration with an international research team and the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group , have found that abbreviated breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected more cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis

… Tuesday, June 25, 2024 The internet is full of “miracle cures” for cancer and alleged surefire ways to prevent it, and well-meaning people may urge cancer patients to just try them out in hopes of eliminating their disease. Some patients, worried that conventional treatments won’t work or pose significant