- New Center Uses Mathematical Models to Understand Cancer
In October 2009, a team of eight researchers, six of whom are at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, received an $11 million, five-year grant from the NCI to form one of 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OCs) in the United States. - An Interview with Andrea Ventura
Cancer biologist Andrea Ventura is the incumbent of a Geoffrey Beene Junior Faculty Chair at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, he devotes his research to the nascent field of microRNA expression, seeking to understand how these small RNAs act on genes to promote or suppress cancer. - Pituitary Tumor Center Addresses a Common Tumor Using a Specialized, Multidisciplinary Approach
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Pituitary Tumor Center was established to treat pituitary tumor patients in a specialized, multidisciplinary fashion. - Atul Gawande Draws Large Crowd for President's Special Lecture
A crowd of more than 550 people filled Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium and three overflow rooms on January 5 to hear writer and surgeon Atul Gawande deliver the President’s Special Lecture. - Researchers Link Gene that Causes Parkinson's Disease to Cancer
A multidisciplinary team of Memorial Sloan-Kettering investigators has shown for the first time that the gene that causes the inherited form of Parkinson’s disease also plays a role in many types of cancer, including colon and lung cancers and glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer. - 4th Annual Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research
The fourth annual symposium drew a large audience of student from local high schools. - Work of Postdoctoral Researchers Spotlighted at Third Annual Symposium
Each year since 2007, Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s postdoctoral researchers have had the opportunity to showcase their research accomplishments at the annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium. - Memorial Sloan-Kettering President Harold Varmus Announces His Intention to Step Down
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center President Harold Varmus announced on January 12 that he has asked the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Boards of Overseers and Managers to begin a search for his successor. - Samuel Singer Appointed Service Chief
Samuel Singer has been appointed Chief of the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service in the Department of Surgery. - Vivek Tim Malhotra Appointed Service Chief
Vivek Tim Malhotra has been named Chief of the Anesthesiology Pain Service in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. - Hedvig Hricak Named President of Radiological Society
Hedvig Hricak, Chair of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Department of Radiology and incumbent of the Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair, has been named the 95th President of the Radiological Society of North America Board of Directors. - Donna Gibson Named Director of Library Services
Donna Gibson has been appointed Director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Library.
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