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Open Access Week (October 22 to 28): A Global Event

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International Open Access (OA) Week starts today and ends on Friday, October 28, with events taking place all over the world to raise awareness of what open access means for research and researchers.

The MSKCC Library is committed to the principles of open access to scholarly peer-reviewed literature as a means to accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient care. This year, the MSKCC Library wants to bring attention to this initiative by sharing our Open Access LibGuide — highlighting resources and sites of interest. Continue reading →

MSKCC in the News: October 8 – October 19

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MSKCC in the News: September 20 – October 5

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  • Congratulations to the following Sloan-Kettering Institute researchers.  They are the recipients of the 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program: Ping Chi, M.D., Ph.D., An integrative approach to target lineage-specific oncogenic transcription factor; Daniel A. Heller, Ph.D.,Transient Metabolite Detection for Single-Cell Metabolomics and Diagnostics; and Alexandrosc Pertsinidis, Ph.D., Understanding Gene Transcription from First-Principles: A single-molecule study.  View all recipients.
  • Investigators at MSKCC, Weill Cornell Medical College, Johns Hopkins University, and The Rockefeller University have found that the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug oxyphenbutazone (OPB) is an effective antimycobacterial agent that displays potent activity against nonreplicating as well as replicating populations of the bacterium.
  • Sloan-Kettering & Hunter College to Build High-Tech NYC Cancer Center.
  • The National Cancer Institute awarded the Small Business Innovation Research grant to RXi for a project with Dr. David Cobrinik and others at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.