Innovations at a Glance
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Incorporating fusion technology combining multi-parametric MRI with real-time ultrasound to provide a 3D visualization of the prostate to track and target suspicious areas during biopsy
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Demonstrated that pembrolizumab shows promise for treating advanced, metastatic esophageal cancer in patients whose disease progressed after receiving two types of combination chemotherapy
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First to describe a genomic pre-malignant phase of acute myeloid leukemia
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Advancing treatment of metastatic lung cancer through radiation therapy in combination with ipilimumab, an immune system–boosting therapy leading to regression of tumor
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Developing the role of liquid biopsy to continuously monitor genetic changes in cancer cells in real-time to optimize treatment as the cancer evolves
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Revealed evidence that a ketogenic diet may improve the effectiveness of an emerging class of cancer drugs that target the insulin-activated enzyme phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K)
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Employing umbilical cord blood cells and salvage chemotherapy to induce remission for refractory acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
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Applying computational and functional techniques that employ physiologic imaging and advanced image processing to correlate imaging characteristics with molecular features of cancer
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Initiating a clinical trial based on experimental studies targeting the JAK1 and the IL-6 signaling pathways as potentially druggable targets to suppress or prevent graft-versus-host disease
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Identified the importance of two gene-regulation proteins — LSD1 and TET2 — in the development of lymphomas
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Conducted the first-ever dose escalation study using convection-enhanced delivery for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma to bypass the blood-brain barrier and administer a drug directly to a brain stem tumor site