Forging Alliances, Enhancing Understandings Memorial Sloan-Kettering and The City College of New York Work have fostered a collaborations aimed at reducing cancer health disparities.
An Interview with Boris Bastian Appointed Chair of the Department of Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in April 2010, Dr. Bastian leads pathologists and clinicians in finding new ways to integrate genetic information with traditional clinical observations to diagnose cancer and guide treatment.
New Targeted Therapy Shows Promise for Advanced Melanoma A multicenter study led by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigators concluded that treatment with a new targeted therapy called PLX4032 resulted in significant tumor shrinkage in 80 percent of patients with advanced melanoma.
Harmful Immune Reactions Might One Day Be Curbed with Cell-Based Therapy A team of researchers led by Memorial Sloan-Kettering immunologist Alexander Rudensky has gained new understanding about regulatory T cells — a subtype of immune cells that suppresses the immune system’s reactivity.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Researchers Are 2010 Rock Stars of Science Three Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigators — including the Center’s new President, Craig B. Thompson — have been featured with singer-songwriter Debbie Harry to lead the Geoffrey Beene Gives Back® 2010 Rock Stars of Science™ campaign in GQ magazine’s December “Men of the Year” issue.
New Research Fund Targets Gastric Cancer To spearhead ongoing progress against the stomach cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering has launched an ambitious program known as the James E. Gerstner Fund for Gastric Cancer Research.
Marc Ladanyi Named to Endowed Chair Marc Ladanyi has been named the incumbent of the newly endowed William Ruane Chair in Molecular Oncology.
Mahmoud B. El-Tamer Joins Memorial Sloan-Kettering as Member Mahmoud B. El-Tamer is a breast surgeon who comes to Memorial Sloan-Kettering from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where he spent more than ten years as an attending surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center.