Prescribing Data-Driven Music Therapy for Cancer Symptom Relief and More MSK in the News…

  • Margaret Riordan, a senior at NYC’s Poly Prep County Day School, was saluted in a May 26th article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for founding her school’s “Kids Walk for Kids with Cancer” team that has “raised an impressive $20,000 over the past three years” to support pediatric cancer research at MSK.
  • On another philanthropic note, a May 20 Forbes article reported that David Koch has pledged to donate $150 million to MSK for the building of a new Upper East Side outpatient treatment facility that is scheduled to open in 2019.
  • According to a May 18 PRNewswire, the Gerstner Family Foundation made a $10 million gift to the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard to fund research aimed at solving the problem of cancer drug resistance.  This research will involve collaborations with Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston and MSK where clinical researchers will try to identify resistance-causing mutations.
  • The New York State Stem Cell Science Program (NYSTEM) awarded researchers at Weill Cornell’s Ansary Stem Cell Institute and MSK’s Center for Cell Engineering a four-year $15.7 million research grant to conduct clinical trials aimed at developing ways to expand blood-forming stem cell production to treat patients with blood disease.