Charles L. Sawyers: Featured News

Charles Sawyers
Charles L. Sawyers, MD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI); Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair in Human Oncology and Pathogenesis; Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Council, the Academy’s governing and oversight body, for a three-year term.
Resistance to molecularly targeted therapies is often due to mutations in the drug target, but there is growing recognition of other modes of tumor esc...
Charles Sawyers in his lab
Scientists have found a protein that empowers prostate tumors to resist hormone therapy.
Courtesy of the AACR
Thousands of oncology experts from around the world will tune in April 27 and 28 for the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) virtual annual meeting I. The meeting is the first of two virtual sessions, with clinical trial plenary sessions, clinical trial poster sessions, several minisymposia, and more. The AACR virtual annual meeting II will be held June 22 through 24.
Fluorescent image of mouse prostate gland
In the Lab
Androgen-deprivation therapy, a mainstay of prostate cancer treatment, may give prostate cells new growth abilities, scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have found.
Blue cells on a black background
In the Lab
Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have created a model of rectal cancer using human-tumor-derived organoids.
MSK cancer researchers Elizabeth Adams, Charles Sawyers, and Rohit Bose
In the Lab
Mutations in a gene called FOXA1 are responsible for a distinct class of prostate cancer tumors, MSK researchers have found.
A yellow molecular model of the androgen receptor on brown background
In the Clinic
Doctors are developing treatment strategies that target the androgen receptor, which is found in many triple-negative breast cancers.
Image of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs representing genetic code
Announcement
Eight leading cancer centers are coming together to share genomic sequencing data, in the hope of making faster progress in curing cancer.
Vice President Joe Biden addressed members of the American Association for Cancer Research on Wednesday in New Orleans.
In the News
The 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) ended with a visit from the Vice President.