While browsing the news, these are some of the stories that rose to the top!

• Congratulations to the winner of Revlon’s LOVE IS ON Million Dollar Challenge – “Cycle for Survival” team from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) raised over $950,000 that will go to support women’s cancer, heart disease and diabetes.  Dr. Craig Thompson, MSK’s President and CEO is quoted.

• SELLAS Life Sciences Group (SELLAS), a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative products to treat cancers and central nervous system diseases, recently announced that it has appointed to its Scientific Advisory Board – Larry W. Kwak, MD, PhD, of the City of Hope National Medical Center, and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, of MSK.  Congratulations to both new members.

• Avera Cancer Institute joins the Worldwide Innovation Network (WIN Consortium) focused on personalized cancer care.  Other members include MSK, as well as, New York University Langone Medical Center, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

• Another article about drug cost!  Elizabeth D. Kantor, an assistant attending epidemiologist at MSK and her colleagues recently reported in a JAMA publication, trends in prescription drug use among adults in the United States from 1999 to 2012.

• Check out Synapse, MSK Publication database – discover recent works by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and health care professionals!