MitoWorld’s life sciences reporter, Danny Levine of the Levine Media Group, conducted an in-depth video interview or MitoCast with Dr. Thompson as part of MitoWorld’s  Spotlight series.

Watch the video on YouTube here.

In March, Gary Howard, MitoWorld’s editorial lead, wrote a MitoWorld post about Craig Thompson’s Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSKCC) and their detailed analysis of a new type of mitochondria devoted to building cell structures, not just producing ATP.  Howard summarized Thompson’s and his collaborators work in Nature, Cellular ATP demand creates metabolically distinct subpopulations of mitochondria.

Howard wrote, “The laboratory of Craig Thompson reports that, under stress conditions, mitochondria assume different roles.  Dr. Thompson is the former president and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2010-2022) and currently holds the Douglas A. Warner III Chair in the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program.

“Dr. Thompson’s research team began their search with a careful rethinking of mitochondrial functions. While mitochondria have many key functions, they are best known for producing the energy that we all need from the food that we eat.” [Sloan Kettering Press Release]