Brandon Staton, of the the hugely popular photoblog Humans of New York was on site in the Pediatrics Department at MSK, documenting the stories of some of our young patients, their families, and our amazing staff on M9. Follow along in the coming days and weeks as a new story is told each day on HONY’s Facebook page. HONY has also created a fundraiser to raise money to research the rare cancers these kids are battling.

MSK Nurses had a strong showing at this year’s ONS Annual Congress in San Antonio, Texas. There were 23 accepted abstracts from 65 MSK authors (including 61 of our nurses!).  Six of those abstracts were podium presentations. Congratulations presenters! Continue reading →

Napster co-Founder Sean Parker is donating $250 million dollars to create the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, a collaboration of six leading academic centers ,including MSK, to pave the way to develop new therapies to use patient’s own immune systems to fight cancer. The Institute will  share research materials and discoveries and jointly conduct clinical trials to try to accelerate progress. “How do we get more therapies to market faster and more cheaply?” Mr. Parker said in an interview, adding that his effort represented a new “blueprint for biomedical research funding.”

MSK will be hosting a new phase 2 clinical trial study for ovarian cancer starting this summer with TapImmune and AstraZeneca/MedImmune. The trial will be of TapImmune’s cancer vaccine TPIV 200, a multi-epitope anti-folate receptor vaccine (FRα), in combination with AstraZeneca’s durvalumab , an anti-PD-L1 antibody, in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. Continue reading →

Craig Thompson, MD, President and CEO of MSK, makes the list of one of the Top 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders of 2016. The advances in cancer treatment and research has brought Dr. Thompson and MSK to the forefront of medical research and leadership. According to Thompson, “We’re really at a pivotal time when we can deliver on all the basic research and translational research from the past 25 years” leading to targeted treatments for individual tumors. “This isn’t science fiction. We’re doing it every day.”

Becker’s Hospital Review asked Craig to discuss their 7 questions about hospital leadership and management.

Craig Thompson was also the keynote speaker at the March 31st Lasker Lessons in Leadership Lecture in Bethesda, MD. He discussed the leadership strategies and the difference between leadership and management.

View the lecture here: Lasker Lessons in Leadership: Leadership in Medicine/Public Health Continue reading →