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S. Cenk Sahinalp elected to 2025 class of ISCB Fellows

S. Cenk Sahinalp, Ph.D., Senior Investigator in the Cancer Data Science Laboratory, was elected to the 2025 class of International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Fellows. The program recognizes individuals who have played a pivotal role in advancing bioinformatics and computational biology. Sahinalp is being honored for his work as a leader in algorithmic methods for cancer genomics, structural variation and tumor evolution. 

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Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic solid cancers

Results of a clinical trial led by Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Chief and Senior Investigator in the Surgery Branch, showed that a new form of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy dramatically improved the treatment’s effectiveness in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers. The findings, published April 1, 2025, in Nature Medicine, offer hope that this personalized immunotherapy regime could be used to treat a variety of solid tumors, which has so far eluded researchers developing cell-based therapies.

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