- June is a month where graduations abound. On Thursday, June 11, a group of teenage cancer patients celebrated at MSK after graduating from high school. The New York Daily News reported on this special event.
- Bloomberg Business reports that this year’s annual Wall Street Decathlon, held the weekend of June 13 – June 14 in New York City, raised approximately $1.3 million for cancer research for MSK. More than $6.3 million for cancer research has been raised since the decathlon started in 2009.
- A recent online article in the San Francisco Business Times, discusses the licensing deal between Atara Biotherapeutics and MSK for “experimental off-the-shelf cell therapies against cancer and long term viral infections.”
- MSK’s Dr. Jedd D. Wolchok and colleague Dr. Michael A. Postow, are featured in an online June 22 OncLive article, that discusses study results recently presented at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Meeting.
Category Archives: MSK in the News
Pediatric Prom, Research Collaboration and More…
- Every Spring is Prom time for many teenagers. The MSK 2015 Pediatric Spring Annual Prom was held Thursday, May 28, with donated dresses and tuxedos, prizes, and make-up. ABC WHAS11 News reported on this year’s event.
- A May 29 online article in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, discusses a research collaboration between MSKCC and Peregrine Pharmaceuticals that will investigate cancer treatments that combine phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting agents with other “checkpoint inhibitors or immune stimulating agents”. Continue reading
Prescribing Data-Driven Music Therapy for Cancer Symptom Relief and More MSK in the News…
- A May 26 VentureBeat post highlighted a new research collaboration between MSK’s Integrative Medicine Department and Pandora’s Music Genome Project’s Nolan Gasser that is described as ”data-driven music therapy”.
- MSK medical oncologist, Dr. Andrew Epstein, was featured in a May 18 WSJ article that reported on approaches to training doctors in the difficult art of delivering bad news to their patients.
- 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. Continue reading