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MSK Research Highlights, October 13, 2022

New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and the Sloan Kettering Institute suggests a therapeutic strategy to overcome resistance to PRMT5 inhibition in lymphoma; finds safety and clinical benefit using an engineered adenovirus in combination with immunotherapy against PD-1-resistant melanoma; and uncovers a new type of immune cell that plays a key role in establishing a healthy gut microbiome.
MSK Postdoc Luis Felipe Somarribas Patterson in the lab
MSK Postdoc Spotlight: Luis Felipe Somarribas Patterson

Luis Felipe Somarribas Patterson joined the Santosha Vardhana Lab as a postdoc in 2021. He investigates how metabolism influences different cell types, including immune cells, and conducts research into “exhausted T cells,” a state of T cell dysfunction that arises during chronic infections and cancer.
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Alexander Gitlin
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Alexander Gitlin Honored with Prestigious NIH Director’s Early Independence Award

Sloan Kettering Institute’s (SKI) Alexander Gitlin, MD, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was recognized as a winner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award.
Anthony Antonelli at Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park, Maine
Sloan Kettering Institute Postdoc Spotlight: Anthony Antonelli, Michael Glickman Lab

Anthony Antonelli is an unlikely scientist. A “rambunctious” child, born in Queens and raised on Long Island, he was smart and creative — but not very keen on academics. “If it wasn’t a guitar or skateboard, I wasn’t interested,” he remembers.
Shaniqua Hayes, postdoc in MSK's Jason Lewis Lab
Sloan Kettering Institute Postdoc Spotlight: Shaniqua Hayes, Jason Lewis Lab

Research fellow Shaniqua Hayes joined the Jason Lewis Lab at the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) and Memorial Hospital about a year ago, after attending an online postdoc recruiting event and picking up “good vibes” about SKI.
Postdoc Swathi Iyer in the lab
Sloan Kettering Institute Postdoc Spotlight: Swathi Iyer, Luis Parada Lab

The idea came to Swathi Iyer on the subway, while headed to a Broadway show: The best way to explain brain cancer’s need for cholesterol is to liken it...
Paige Arnold working in a lab
2022 GSK Chairman’s Prize Celebrates Research That Sheds Light on Cellular Metabolic Processes

Paige Arnold, who will graduate from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) next spring, has been awarded the 2022 Chairman’s Prize. The competitive award is presented annually and was established by GSK’s Board of Trustees Chair Emeritus Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., for whom the school is named.
MSK physician-scientist Charles Sawyers and SKI computational biologist Dana Pe’er
MSK Researchers Discover How Cancer Cells Change Identity To Escape Therapies

Researchers learn how prostate cancer cells change their type to survive treatment.
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Scott Lowe
SKI Scientists Solve 30-Year-Old Mystery About p53 Protein — Dubbed ‘Guardian of the Genome’

Rather than promoting genetic chaos, loss of p53 leads to an orderly progression of genetic changes that no one saw coming.
SKI molecular biologist John Maciejowski
SKI Study Sheds Light on How a Natural Defense Against Viruses Can Lead to Mutations in Cancer Cells

A protein in the body that protects against viruses can also cause cancer-related mutations.