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Petri dish with green mold on it
Insight into How Lungs Repel Infection Could Guide Therapies for Transplant Patients

Learn how immune cells in the lungs trigger invasive fungal cells to self-destruct. The discovery could produce therapies to prevent infection in cancer patients.
Finding
Kenneth Offit and Vijai Joseph
Making an IMPACT: MSK’s Gene-Sequencing Test Reveals New Findings about Hereditary Cancer Risk

An analysis of germline DNA in people with advanced cancer finds that inherited mutations may be more common than expected in this group.
Announcement
Pediatric oncologist Kevin Curran with CAR T patient Esmeralda Pineda
FDA Approves First CAR T Cell Therapy for Leukemia

Children, teens, and young adults with leukemia that have stopped responding to chemotherapy are the first eligible to receive the new treatment.
Finding
A network of neurons
Is Neurodegenerative Disease a Kind of Cancer?

New findings from experiments done in mice suggest a surprising cause of common neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School Students Receive 2017-18 Fellowships

Every year, GSK awards fellowships to two third-year students and six second-year students based on academic excellence.
Gregory Mazo
GSK Student Gregory Mazo Awarded 2017 Chairman’s Prize

Gregory Mazo has been awarded the Chairman’s Prize for his first-author paper Spatial Control of Primary Ciliogenesis by Subdistal Appendages Alters Sensation-Associated Properties of Cilia, published in Developmental Cell in 2016.
In the Clinic
Surgeon in blue scrubs doing operation with two assisting.
Guiding Light: New Imaging Techniques Improve Head and Neck Cancer Surgeries

MSK head and neck surgeons are investigating novel imaging methods that enable them to detect and visualize cancer cells during an operation.
Finding
Rack of blood vials
Secondary Leukemia: Research Suggests New Ways to Understand What Causes This Side Effect of Cancer Treatment

MSK investigators find that the presence of certain gene mutations in patients’ blood may mean they are more likely to get a secondary leukemia.
Announcement
Acute myeloid leukemia cells under a microscope
FDA Approves Enasidenib (Idhifa), a First-of-Its-Kind Drug, for Advanced Blood Cancer

A new treatment option for people with acute myeloid leukemia is available, and it works in an unconventional way.
In the Lab
Representative image of a dividing tumor cell showing the extrachromosomal location of duplicated BRAF genes
Giving Drugs Together — Rather than in Sequence — May Be Key to Halting Tumor Resistance

Scientists are learning how tumors develop resistance to drugs — and what can be done about it.