The Last Wish Program (LWP) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center empowers patients at the end of their lives to donate their bodies for research. The LWP is a rapid research autopsy program, coordinating collection, annotation, and storage of high-quality postmortem tissue samples. The LWP team collaborates with the MSK research community to address fundamental questions in cancer biology, progression, and metastasis, and response and resistance to treatment.

Team

Rajmohan Murali, MBBS, MD, FRCPA – Director
Dilip D. Giri, MD – Associate Director
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD – Associate Director, Scientific Initiatives
Simran Shah – Research Project Associate
Ismark Torres – Research Project Associate
Shirley Vargas – Manager, Hospital Operations

Contact

For more information about the Last Wish Program, please contact the primary operational team:

Rajmohan Murali, MBBS, MD, FRCPA – Director
Simran Shah – Research Project Associate
Ismark Torres – Research Project Associate

Phone: 347-263-4334
Email: pthLastWish@mskcc.org