Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) will award three influential cancer researchers with this year’s Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. The prize, named in honor of former MSK president Paul Marks, MD, recognizes a new generation of leaders who are making significant contributions to the understanding of cancer or are improving the treatment of the disease.
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Chair of the Molecular Pharmacology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI); Evnin Family Chair in Molecular Pharmacology and Attending Physician on the Leukemia Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the most prestigious honors in the fields of health and medicine.
Laboratory research shows how it may be possible to develop an immunotherapy-based approach for treating aggressive forms of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).
