MSKCC in the News: April 25 – May 14

  • Christopher Lima of MSKCC was selected to join the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Program.
  • Gopa Iyer of MSKCC was awarded the James Family Young Investigator Award for “Identifying Predictors of Response to mTOR-targeted Therapies in Bladder Cancer.”
  • Foundation Medicine and MSKCC announced a partnership that brings together clinical, genomic and computational expertise to advance patient care in hematologic cancers.
  • Scientists from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and MSKCC published results in the journal Cell Stem Cell of a new model cell system that allows neuroscientists to investigate normal brain development, as well as to identify specific disruptions in biological signals that may contribute to neuropsychiatric diseases.
  • Nature published findings from a large-scale genomic analysis led by researchers at MSKCC and other centers within The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network that may help diagnose endometrial cancer and lead to new drug development.
  • MSKCC’s Dr. Kenneth Offit is quoted in an NPR article about Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preventive double mastecomy.