Marina Konopleva joins Break Through Cancer

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Marina Konopleva, director of the Leukemia Program and co-director of the Blood Cancer Institute at the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, has joined Break Through Cancer, a collaborative medical research foundation that supports teams of scientists as they advance treatments for some of the world’s deadliest cancers. 

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