Stephen B. Long: Featured News

Structural biologist Stephen Long in his lab
In the Lab
Sloan Kettering Institute investigators have learned how Hedgehog proteins, which are important in both development and cancer, are assembled.
Ankita Dhar and Jason De La Cruz at work in MSK's cryo-EM facility
How cryo-electron microscopy is providing scientists at MSK with an unprecedented view of the wild and wiggly microcosm inside our cells.
A gray blob marked RAS linked to colorful rods marked ICMT
In the Lab
The atomic structure of an elusive type of membrane protein has finally been solved by scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
Pictured: Stephen Long & Alexandria Miller
Profile
At Work: Structural Biologist Stephen Long
Stephen Long works to understand how proteins work by determining what they look like in three dimensions.
Pictured: Ion Channel K2P1
Q&A
3D Shape of an Ion Channel Revealed
Structural biologist Stephen Long talks about how his team used x-ray crystallography to discover the structure of an ion channel called K2P1.
Recipients of the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Young Investigators Fund, pictured with Mr. Gerstner. (From left) Iestyn Whitehouse, Hans-Guido Wendel, Mr. Gerstner, Stephen Long, and Timothy Chan.
Memorial Sloan Kettering has announced the creation of the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Young Investigators Fund and has named the fund's first four recipients.
A scientist holding a tube in a lab
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