Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
The Nai-Kong Cheung Lab
Research
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Professor
My lab focuses on engineering antibodies and immune cells to treat both solid tumors and liquid tumors in children.
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Featured News
![Dr. Nai-Kong V. Cheung, Head, Neuroblastoma Program; Enid A. Haupt Chair in Pediatric Oncology](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200/public/node/6712/image/cheung-nai-kong.jpg)
Publications Highlights
Santich BH, Cheal SM, Ahmed M, McDevitt MR, Yang G, Ouerfelli Q, Veach DR, Fung EK, Patel M, Vargas DB, Malik AA, Guo HF, Zanzonico PB, Monette S, Michel AO, Rudin CM, Larson SM, Cheung NK. A Self-Assembling and DisAssembling (SADA) bispecific antibody (BsAb) platform for curative 2-step pre-targeted radioimmunotherapy Clin Can Res, 2020;27(2):532-541. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-2150
Gundem G, Levine MF, Roberts SS, Cheung IY, Medina-Martínez JS, Feng Y, Arango-Ossa JE, Chadoutaud L, Rita M, Asimomitis G, Zhou J, You D, Bouvier N, Spitzer B, Solit DB, Dela Cruz F, LaQuaglia MP, Kushner BH, Modak S, Shukla N, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Kung AL, Cheung NV, Papaemmanuil E. Clonal evolution during metastatic spread in high-risk neuroblastoma. Nat Genet. 2023 Jun;55(6):1022-1033. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01395-x.
Park JA, Espinosa-Cotton M, Guo HF, Monette S, Cheung NKV. Targeting tumor vasculature to improve antitumor activity of T cells armed ex vivo with T cell engaging bispecific antibody. J Immunother Cancer 2023 Mar;11(3):e006680. doi:10.1136/jitc-2023-006680.
Chung SK, Vargas DB, Chandler CS, Katugampola S, Veach DR, McDevitt MR, Seo SH, Vaughn BA, Rinne SS, Punzalan B, Patel M, Xu H, Guo HF, Zanzonico PB, Monette S, Yang G, Ouerfelli O, Nash GM, Cercek A, Fung EK, Howell RW, Larson SM, Cheal SM, Cheung NK. Efficacy of HER2-Targeted Intraperitoneal 225Ac α-Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy for Small-Volume Ovarian Peritoneal Carcinomatosis. J Nucl Med. 2023 Sep; 64(9):1439-1445. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.122.265095.
Cheung IY, Mauguen A, Modak S, Ragupathi G, Basu EM, Roberts SS, Kushner BH, Cheung NK. Effect of Oral β-Glucan on Antibody Response to Ganglioside Vaccine in Patients With High-Risk Neuroblastoma: A Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2023 Feb;9(2):242-250, doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.5999
People
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Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PhD
Enid A. Haupt Chair in Pediatric Oncology, Pediatrics
Professor
- Physician-scientist Nai-Kong Cheung focuses on engineering antibodies and immune cells to treat both solid tumors and liquid tumors in children.
- MD, PhD (Immunology), Harvard Medical School
- [email protected]
- Email Address
- 646-888-2313
- Office Phone
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Members
![Madelyn Espinosa-Cotton](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/174700/3x2/espinosa-cotton-_madelyn_190822_03_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
![Yi Feng](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5088/3x2/feng-yi-181015_10_1200x800.jpg)
![Hoa Tran](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5089/3x2/tran-hoa_181015_05_1200x800.jpg)
![Irene Cheung, ScD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5066/3x2/cheung-irene_181015_13_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Laboratory Member and Attending Clinical Immunologist
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Senior Research Scientist
![Yi Feng](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5088/3x2/feng-yi-181015_10_1200x800.jpg)
Senior Research Assistant
![Hong-fen Guo](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5083/3x2/guo-hong-fen_181015_07_1200x800_0.jpg)
Research Assistant/Specialist
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Senior Research Assistant
![Hong Xu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5084/3x2/hong-xu-181015_08_1200x800.jpg)
Senior Research Scientist
Postdoctoral Fellow
Visiting Investigator
Research Technician
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![Aiza Malik](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/174718/3x2/malik-_aiza_190822_04_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
![Mauricio Rendon-Bernot, MD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/180940/3x2/rendon-bernot-_mauricio_190822_06_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
![Linlin Wang , PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/111913/3x2/wang-linlin_181015_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
![Mao (Sally) Wang, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/164956/3x2/wang-mao_181015_13_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Lab Alumni
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Research Associate
![Tsung-Yi (Steven) Lin, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/164950/3x2/tsung-yi-lin_181015_10_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Fellow
![Alan Long, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/180937/3x2/long-alan_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Scholar
![Aiza Malik](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/174718/3x2/malik-_aiza_190822_04_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Technician
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Research Fellow
![Mauricio Rendon-Bernot, MD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/180940/3x2/rendon-bernot-_mauricio_190822_06_1200x800-1.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Clinical Fellow
![Brian Santich](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/20057/3x2/santich-brian_18101508_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Fellow
![Linlin Wang , PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/111913/3x2/wang-linlin_181015_04_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Associate
![Mao (Sally) Wang, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/164956/3x2/wang-mao_181015_13_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Fellow
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Nai-Kong V. Cheung discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Abpro Inc
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Biotec Pharmacon
Intellectual Property Rights
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Eureka Therapeutics Inc
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Y-mAbs Therapeutics, Inc.
Equity; Intellectual Property Rights
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