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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is pleased to announce The Washington Post has named Vinod Balachandran, MD, surgeon-scientist and Director of The Olayan Center for Cancer Vaccines at MSK, to the inaugural edition of the Post Next 50, a list of up-and-coming changemakers shaping society in 2025.

… Tuesday, February 11, 2025 Post Next Logo Courtesy of the Washington Post Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is pleased to announce The Washington Post has named  Vinod Balachandran, MD, surgeon-scientist and Director of The Olayan Center for Cancer Vaccines at MSK, to the inaugural edition

Learn how people with cancer can protect themselves against foodborne illness.

… Monday, May 23, 2022 Foodborne illness (also known as food poisoning) is a special concern for people with cancer. Their immune systems are weaker than those of the general public, which makes it harder to fight off dangerous pathogens in foods that are undercooked, past their expiration date, or improperly

Physicians and scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) will join oncology experts and members of the global cancer research community to present the latest advances in cancer during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, June 2–6 in Chicago.

… Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Physicians and scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) will join oncology experts and members of the global cancer research community to present the latest advances in cancer during the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, June 2

Performers from Hamilton, Company, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Carmen Jones and more bring MSK patients’ stories to life on March 22 and 29.

… Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Summary Performers from Hamilton , Company , Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Carmen Jones and more bring MSK patients’ stories to life on March 22 and 29. On Monday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. ET, with an encore performance at 9:00 p.m. , Visible Ink will present Act One of its

Gerstner Sloan Kettering student research has been recognized with the Grayer Fellowships, the Catell Fellowship, the Olayan Fellowship, the Palestin Fellowship, and the Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowship.

… Friday, September 7, 2012 Grayer Fellows Third-year students Marta Kovatcheva and Yilong Zou have been named Grayer Fellows. The fellowships were established by Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Grayer. Mr. Grayer is a member of the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Board of Trustees, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers join with experts from international institutions to estimate the potential impact of scaling up the availability of treatment and imaging modalities on breast cancer survival globally, together with improvements in quality of care.

… Thursday, August 19, 2021 Female breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, with wide variations in reported survival by country. Women in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular face several barriers to breast cancer services, including diagnostics and treatment

Learn how noninvasive prenatal tests designed to screen for genetic abnormalities in the fetus may detect the presence of cancer in pregnant women.

… Monday, October 6, 2025 Once reserved for high-risk pregnancies, noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs) that screen for genetic abnormalities have been the standard of care since 2020. Most pregnant women — some 2 million a year — elect to have the test. Now a new study has found that in some cases, NIPT

In an unusual collaboration, scientists from MSK and the American Museum of Natural History looked at how the BRCA2 gene differs between humans and chimps. Mutations in this gene are linked to an increased risk of certain cancers, including breast cancer.

… Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, descending from the same species as humans more than 6 million years ago. The fact that we share 98.8% of our genes with chimps explains fascinating similarities in our behaviors and our bodies. But the remaining 1.2% of genes explains

In this new expanded role, Avice Meehan will streamline communications across the Center and lead both Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Public Affairs and Marketing endeavors.

… Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has announced the appointment of Avice Meehan to Vice President of Communications and Chief Communications Officer. In this new expanded role, Meehan will streamline communications across the Center and lead both Memorial Sloan Kettering’

A new Sloan Kettering Institute program will enhance the use of chemical principles to investigate biological processes.

… Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Summary MSK has established the Chemical Biology Program to leverage the growing role of chemistry in biomedical research. Highlights This is the first new SKI program in more than a decade. Members will use chemical tools to study biology. Chemist Derek Tan will chair the new