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Dinshaw Patel (left) with Zhu Chen, Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress of China
Dinshaw Patel Receives C.C. Tan Life Science International Collaboration Award

The award recognizes his lifetime contributions to the field of life sciences, especially related to the training of Chinese scientists who have returned to faculty positions in China.
In the Lab
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Bull’s-Eye: Imaging Technology Could Confirm When a Drug Is Going to the Right Place

Collaborative team advances a new approach for imaging a drug that’s been developed to stop cancer growth.
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Newly Discovered Immune Cell Subtypes Could Shake Up Immunotherapy

Dendritic cells, the guards of the immune system, have a previously unrecognized division of labor.
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Michel Talagrand, Maria Jasin, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, and Edward Stone
Meet Maria Jasin, an Award-Winning Biologist Who Studies DNA Repair

Maria Jasin, a member of the Sloan Kettering Institute’s Developmental Biology Program, discusses her research.
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New Findings Clarify How the “Guardian of the Genome” Works

Surprise! It has to do with metabolism.
Announcement
GSK Students Receive Fellowships for the 2019-2020 Academic Year

Gerstner Sloan Kettering recognizes student research by annually awarding the Grayer Fellowships, the Olayan Fellowship, the Robert B. Catell Fellowship, the Palestin Fellowship, and the Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowships.
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Scientists See Potential in Cellular 'Death by Iron' for Cancer Treatment

This form of cell death is called ferroptosis, and certain cancer cells are especially vulnerable to it.
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Microscopy image of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus
Researchers Identify a Bacterial Species That Could Protect against Hospital-Acquired Infections

MSK researchers are reporting that a bacterial species called Blautia producta appears to release a substance that kills harmful bacteria.
Announcement
Mehmet Erman Karasu
2019 GSK Chairman’s Prize Lauds Research to Better Understand Reproductive-Cell-Division Process

Learn about the work of Mehmet Erman Karasu, a recent graduate of the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK), has been awarded the 2019 Chairman’s Prize.
In the Lab
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How Stem Cells Decide Their Fate

Research in blood stem cells has revealed new information about how these cells decide what to become when they divide.