Congratulations to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)'s most recent Awards and Appointments honorees, including MSK President and CEO Dr. Selwyn Vickers being named to Modern Healthcare's 2024 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives List, MSK Director of Center for Cell Engineering Dr. Michel Sadelain receiving the Harvard Medical School 2024 Warren Alpert Prize for CAR T-Cell Therapy, and more: https://lnkd.in/gS8nDWFj
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The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. One of the world’s most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.
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- Hospitals and Health Care
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- 1884
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Dr. Ellen Horste, an alumni from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), says her time investigating fundamental biological questions prepared her for a career in the emerging field of gene therapy. "I got a world-class education in molecular biology - and it put me a position where I could be open to a variety of career paths working on a variety of diseases," Dr. Horste says. Currently, Dr. Horste is a payload engineer for a gene therapy startup, designing genetic elements that get loaded into a virus for delivery into the human body. Once deployed, the treatment’s job is to make therapeutic proteins to replace missing or defective ones. While she’s not at liberty to disclose the specific medical conditions her work aims to address, Dr. Horste says her education and training at GSK did a great job in preparing her for the role. Read more about GSK and Dr. Horste: https://bit.ly/3A8oAcY
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We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) Innovation Hub Challenge. This first-ever, three-month program is designed to advance digital health innovations with support from MSK experts. The chosen cohort will focus on a strategic theme in cancer care and research, with this year's theme being "Decentralized Clinical Trials." Apply now and learn more: https://bit.ly/3LKOXrL
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to the targeted therapy selpercatinib for treating adult and pediatric patients two years and older with advanced or metastatic thyroid cancers that have certain changes in a gene called RET. Dr. Eric Sherman, a head and neck medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), played a key role in the development of selpercatinib. "Selpercatinib has shown a benefit for the treatment of RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer compared to older drugs that had been approved for this indication,” Dr. Sherman says. “In addition, it appears to cause fewer severe side effects.” Learn more: https://bit.ly/4d3fdKc
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In this month's Cancer Straight Talk podcast from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), host Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes is joined by MSK dermatologist and Mohs surgeon Dr. Erica Lee to discuss misconceptions around who can get skin cancer, how it presents on different skin types, and practical sun safety tips to help prevent skin cancer. Listen to the full episode here: https://bit.ly/3YbOS81
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Congratulations to 2024 graduates of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) School of Radiation Therapy, which has produced hundreds of radiation therapists over the past five decades. This program shows the dedication and expertise of the faculty and leaders in the MSK Department of Radiation Oncology. Learn more about this program: https://bit.ly/3WxW9h7
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A clinical trial led by Dr. Lee Jones, exercise scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), suggests that specific amounts of exercise by men with early-stage prostate cancer before surgery can meaningfully improve two key biomarkers associated with better outcomes. “To our knowledge, this is the first Phase 1a clinical trial of exercise therapy in individuals with any type of cancer diagnosis,” says Dr. Jones, who leads the Exercise Oncology Program at MSK. “We believe...that this clinical trial represents an important step forward in rigorous investigation of how exercise impacts the progression and spread of cancer." Learn more about the clinical trial: https://bit.ly/3ydshgL
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According to a large retrospective study co-led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, PTCy is an acceptable alternative to CNI-based prophylaxis in MUD HCT recipients and superior for MMUD HCT. These results will help improve minority donor participation in the National Marrow Donor Program registry. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eiCFK6mM
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