MSKCC in the News: October 17 – October 31

  • Phys.org reported on research recently published in an article in Nature Chemical Biology on work by a collaborative team of scientists from MSKCC, the Broad Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital, that outlines how they built a new cell culture model that mimics AML in its niche in the bone marrow and makes the search for promising new drugs more effective.
  • PMLive reported that the non-profit Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute (Tri-I TDI) will bring together scientists from MSKCC, Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medical College and will focus on basic research and early-stage drug discovery up to the ‘proof-of-concept’ stage.
  • The Wall Street Journal announced that MSKCC has placed Gelclair(R) on its formulary as the exclusive therapeutic to treat oral mucositis (OM).