2025 team-designated support
Each project that Cycle for Survival funds advances progress toward new and more effective ways to diagnose, treat, and cure people with rare cancers. These MSK researchers were chosen by teams to receive funding in the areas specified below from the $36 million raised during Cycle for Survival’s 2025 season.
David Abramson, MD
Chief of the Ophthalmic Oncology Service in the Department of Surgery
Retinoblastoma
Nadeem Abu-Rustum, MD
Chief of the Gynecology Service; Founder’s Chair
Gynecologic Cancer
Prasad Adusumilli, MD
Deputy Chief of the Thoracic Service; Vice Chair for Translational Research in the Department of Surgery; Co-Director of the Mesothelioma Program; Min H. & Yu-Fan C. Kao Chair in Thoracic Cancer
Mesothelioma
Carol Aghajanian, MD
Chief of the Gynecologic Medical Oncology Service; Avon Chair in Gynecologic Oncology Research
Gynecologic Cancer
Hikmat Al-Ahmadie, MD
Pathology
Cristina Antonescu, MD
Leiomyosarcoma, Liposarcoma
Viswatej (Vishu) Avutu, MD
CIC-DUX4, Phase 2 Clinical Trial for Osteosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma
Fiyinfolu Balogun, MD, PhD
Health Equity in Pancreatic Cancer
Lisa Bodei, MD, PhD
Director of Targeted Radionuclide Therapy
Theranostics
Jaap-Jan Boelens, MD, PhD
Chief of the Pediatric Transplant and Cellular Therapy Service; Richard J. O’Reilly Chair in Honor of Kevin Zoltan Merszei
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant
Andrea Cercek, MD
Head of the Colorectal Cancer Section; Co-Director of the Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancer; The Ford Family Chair
Debyani Chakravarty, PhD
Health Equity in Pancreatic Cancer
Nai-Kong Cheung, MD, PhD
Enid A. Haupt Chair of Pediatric Oncology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Support
Dennis Chi, MD
Deputy Chief of the Gynecology Service; Head of Ovarian Cancer Surgery in the Department of Surgery; Ronald O. Perelman Chair in Gynecologic Surgery
Gynecologic Cancer
Daniel Coit, MD
Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Louise Catherine Connell, MB BCh BAO, BMedSc
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Sandra D’Angelo, MD
Synovial Cell Sarcoma
Ira Dunkel, MD
Pediatric Cancer
Darren Feldman, MD
Head of the Germ Cell Cancer Section
Germ Cell Tumors
Christopher Forlenza, MD
Pediatric Cancer
Sergio Giralt, MD
Deputy Head of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Chief Medical Officer of MSK Direct; Melvin Berlin Family Chair in Multiple Myeloma
Blood Cancer
Julia Glade Bender, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Pediatric Cancer
Mrinal Gounder, MD
Physician Ambassador to India and Asia
CIC-DUX4 Sarcoma
Rachel Grisham, MD
Head of the Ovarian Cancer Section; Director of Gynecologic Medical Oncology at MSK Westchester
Gynecologic Cancer
James Harding, MD
Cholangiocarcinoma
John Healey, MD
Stephen McDermott Chair in Surgery
Sarcoma
Alan Ho, MD, PhD
Chief, Head and Neck Oncology Service
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Pancreatic Research; David M. Rubenstein Chair
Pancreatic Cancer
Yelena Janjigian, MD
Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology Service
Gastrointestinal Cancers, Pancreatic Cancer, Esophageal Cancer
William Jarnagin, MD
Chief of the Hepatobiliary Service; Leslie H. Blumgart Chair in Surgery
Cholangiocarcinoma, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Hepatobiliary Cancer
Matthias Karajannis, MD, MS
Chief of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Service
Pediatric Cancer
T. Peter Kingham, MD
Director of the Global Cancer Research and Training Program
Cholangiocarcinoma, Hepatobiliary Cancer
Christopher Klebanoff, MD
Member Investigator in the Center for Cell Engineering
Sarcoma Immunotherapy Research
Andrew Kung, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Pediatrics; Lila Acheson Wallace Chair for Pediatric Research
Pediatric Cancer, MSK Kids Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials, Rhabdomyosarcoma
Brian Kushner, MD
Neuroblastoma
Michael La Quaglia, MD
Joseph H. Burchenal Chair in Pediatrics
Pediatric Cancer
Ross Levine, MD
Chief Scientific Officer; Senior Vice President, Memorial Hospital, Translational Research; Edward P. Evans Endowed Chair for MDS
Blood Cancer
Vicky Makker, MD
Section Head of the Endometrial Cancer Program; Director of the Hematology-Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program
Gynecologic Cancer
Ingo Mellinghoff, MD
Chair of the Department of Neurology; Evnin Family Chair in Neuro-Oncology
Brain Cancer, Glioblastoma
Paul Meyers, MD
Robbins Family Chair in Pediatrics
Pediatric Sarcoma
Daniela Molena, MD
Director of the Esophageal Surgery Program
Esophageal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer
Carol Morris, MD, MS
Chief of the Orthopaedic Surgery Service; Jack Byrne Chair for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers
Sarcoma
Luc Morris, MD, MSc
Director of the Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery Fellowship Program; Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Immunogenomics
ENT Research
Sujana Movva, MD
Sarcoma
Garrett Nash, MD, MPH
Vice President of Quality and Safety
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH
Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service; Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine; Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics
Gynecologic Cancer
Eileen O’Reilly, MD
Chair of the Human Research Protection Program and Institutional Review Board; Co-Director of Medical Initiatives at the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Head of the Hepatopancreaticobiliary and Neuroendocrine Cancers Section; Winthrop Rockefeller Chair of Medical Oncology
Gastrointestinal Cancers, Pancreatic Cancer
Michael Ortiz, MD
Pediatric Cancer
Juan Osorio, MD
Ovarian Cancer
Luis F. Parada, PhD
Director of the Brain Tumor Center; Albert C. Foster Chair
Glioblastoma, Medulloblastoma
Philip Paty, MD
Talcott Chair for Clinical Excellence
Gastrointestinal Cancers
Michael Postow, MD
Chief of the Melanoma Service; Co-Director of the Melanoma Disease Management Team
Melanoma
Daniel Prince, MD, MPH
Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Surgery
Nitya Raj, MD
Vice Chair of Quality Assurance in the Department of Medicine; Medical Site Director of the Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion
Adrenal Cancer
Devika Rao, MD
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Raajit Rampal, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Hematologic Malignancies; Director of the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Program
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma
Damon Reed, MD
Chief of the Pediatric Sarcoma Service; Head of the Pediatric Solid Tumors Division
Pediatric Sarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma
Gregory Riely, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Medicine; Ning Zhao and Ge Li Endowed Chair in Lung Cancer Research
Thymoma
Jonathan Rosenberg, MD
Chief of the Genitourinary Oncology Service in the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology; Enno W. Ercklentz, Jr. Chair
Urologic Cancer
Sameer Farouk Sait, MBBS
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Adam Schmitt, MD
Radiology
Jatin Shah, MD
Elliot W. Strong Chair in Head and Neck Oncology
Throat Cancer
Sohrab Shah, PhD
Chief of Computational Oncology in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Nicholls-Biondi Chair
Ovarian Cancer
Neerav Shukla, MD
Chief of the Pediatric Translational Medicine Service; Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chair
Pediatric Cancer
Samuel Singer, MD
Chief of the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service; Vincent Astor Chair of Clinical Research
Sarcoma
David Solit, MD
Director of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology; Geoffrey Beene Chair
Center for Molecular Oncology, MSK-IMPACT®
Vivian Strong, MD
Iris Cantor Chair in Honor of Dr. Sidney Winawer
Esophageal Cancer
Viviane Tabar, MD
Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery; Theresa Feng Chair in Neurosurgery
DIPG, Pediatric Cancer
William Tap, MD
Chief of the Sarcoma Medical Oncology Service
Sarcoma
Kathryn Taylor, PhD
Pediatric Cancer
Rohit Thummalapalli, MD
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Saad Usmani, MD, MBA
Chief of the Myeloma Service
Multiple Myeloma
Britta Weigelt, PhD
Director of the Gynecology Disease Management Team Research Laboratory
Gynecologic Cancer, Peritoneal Ovarian Cancer
Leonard Wexler, MD
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Wenbin Xiao, MD, PhD
AML Pediatric Leukemia
Etay Ziv, MD, PhD
Neuroendocrine Tumors