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Neil M. Iyengar, MD


Associate Attending Physician

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center


Iyengar is part of the breast oncology team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), specializing in exercise oncology. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed his residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center and his fellowship at MSKCC. Iyengar has been granted with many prestigious awards including the Career Development Award from Conquer Cancer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation and Breast Cancer Research Foundation Investigator.


In his "Letter to the Readers", co-editor-in-chief of the journal ONCOLOGY Howard S. Hochster, MD, reviews the development of mRNA technology, especially as it applies to vaccines against COVID-19.

Unprecedented efforts from researchers and pharmaceutical engineers have brought about safe, effective vaccines, in record development times; now the focus must be on a federally coordinated program to administer those injections in the most efficient manner possible.