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New Study Examines the Longest-Running CAR T Cell Trial and Finds Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients May Do Better When Treated Early
New York, NY, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 – Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) report today in the New England Journal of Medicine that adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who received chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy responded better if they had a small amount of disease at the time of the […]
Proof of Principle: Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute Drug Candidates “Graduate” to Next Phase of Development
Monday, January 22, 2018 – When the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute launched just over four years ago, nothing like it existed in academia. The nonprofit academic corporation – a joint venture between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine, with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. as their partner – was tasked […]
Viviane Tabar, MD, Named Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 – Viviane Tabar, MD, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Dr. Tabar has been a vital faculty member at MSK for more than 15 years and is currently the Theresa C. Feng Chair for Neurosurgical Oncology […]
IBM, Packet Clearing House and Global Cyber Alliance Collaborate to Protect Businesses and Consumers from Internet Threats
NEW YORK – 16 Nov 2017: IBM Security (NYSE: IBM), Packet Clearing House (PCH) and The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) today launched a free service designed to give consumers and businesses added privacy and security protection as they access the internet. The new Quad9 Domain Name System (DNS) service helps protect users from accessing millions […]