Peter T. Scardino, MD, FACS

In 2001, I received an NIH grant to establish an ongoing Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in prostate cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Our SPORE has an ambitious research program focused on developing therapies appropriate for patients with different types of prostate cancer at different stages of development. We hope to achieve this by using molecular and genetic data to improve our prediction models for prostate cancer, identifying the critical mechanisms by which prostate cancer grows and spreads, and developing drugs and immunological techniques for treatment-resistant metastatic cancers.

My position at Memorial Sloan-Kettering includes appointments as Head of the Prostate Cancer program, Member in the Sloan-Kettering Institute's Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program;  and the incumbent of the David H. Koch Chair. I am also a Professor in the Department of Urology at Weill Cornell Medical College and at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

I have written many articles and book chapters and edited the Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology. In 2005, with Judith Kelman, I wrote Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book, a guide to prostate cancer, prostatitis, and benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). I serve as Editor-in Chief of Nature Clinical Practice Urology, and I am an editorial board member and reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. I am an active member of the National Academies' Institute of Medicine and of the American Urological Association.