This includes reviewing appropriateness of requests, accessioning, centrifugation, aliquotting, placing samples on analyzers, performed waived lab tests, archiving and sample preparation for specimens sent to another laboratory for testing. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it.