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An international collaboration of researchers is advancing precision medicine for men with advanced prostate cancer.
… Thursday, May 21, 2015 An international collaboration of researchers is advancing precision medicine for men with advanced prostate cancer. The researchers, led by Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, and Charles L. Sawyers, MD, co-leaders of the Stand Up to Cancer-Prostate Cancer Foundation Dream Team, sequenced
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) experts presented breakthrough findings in several areas of cancer research at the 2022 Annual ASCO meeting, focusing on rectal, breast, leptomeningeal metastasis, pancreatic, and lung cancers.
… Thursday, June 9, 2022 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) experts presented breakthrough findings in several areas of cancer research at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting held June 3 to 7, 2022. Highlights of practice-changing study results in rectal cancer, breast cancer, leptomeningeal metastasis
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.
… Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces the following awards and appointments: Atefeh Riazi Named 2022 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Most Influential Women in Health IT Award Recipient Atefeh Riazi Atefeh “Atti” Riazi , Senior Vice
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A team led by MSK molecular biologist Scott Lowe is making progress against fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma.
… Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Summary Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have developed a mouse model of a rare type of liver cancer. It should aid the search for effective therapies. Some diseases are rare. Others are ultrarare. But if you have an ultrarare condition, that qualifier is little consolation
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Meet Vanessa Tran, a nurse turned volunteer who uses art to support healing.
… Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Vanessa Tran folding paper cranes Inspired by the children’s book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Vanessa Tran folded 1,000 origami cranes. Photo: Vanessa Tran Vanessa Tran posing with a locker full of paper cranes The paper cranes are stacked neatly in her MSK locker
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the following awards and appointments.
… Thursday, October 31, 2024 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the following awards and appointments: Deb Schrag and Lorenz Studer Elected to the National Academy of Medicine Deb Schrag and Lorenz Studer Elected to the National Academy of Medicine Deb Schrag, MD, MPH , Chair
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is proud and honored to announce it has been named the number one hospital for cancer care in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report in its annual listing of Best Hospitals.
… Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is proud and honored to announce it has been named the number one hospital for cancer care in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report in its annual listing of Best Hospitals. Since the inception of the revered list 25 years ago,
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The atomic structure of an elusive type of membrane protein has finally been solved by scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
… Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Summary Scientists in the Sloan Kettering Institute have solved the structure of an integral membrane protein, a major advance in basic biochemistry that could also lead to new cancer treatments. Every second millions of chemical reactions take place in your cells to kindle
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… Wednesday, November 30, 2022 When Chris Scott met with his urologist in January 2022, he thought they’d talk about an issue he was having with his prostate. But the conversation took a very different turn after Chris, 61, got a CT scan CT scan of his abdomen. On his pancreas was a cyst the size of a
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Part natural killer, part T cell, this hybrid immune cell has a “double sword” for fighting cancer.
… Tuesday, October 5, 2021 Pick up any immunology textbook and you’ll find an explanation of the “innate” and “adaptive” arms of the immune system. The innate arm is active from birth and responds to a predefined set of common threats; the adaptive arm takes time to develop but is more versatile at combatting