Center News Magazine: April 2011

More than 500 high school students and their teachers filled the Rockefeller Research Laboratories to learn about recent discoveries.

An internationally recognized bone marrow transplantation expert, Sergio A. Giralt joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as Chief of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service in 2010.

A new center at the Sloan-Kettering Institute is exploring the potential of embryonic stem cells and human adult cells to produce regenerative treatments and provide insights into cancer.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering chefs and dieticians have developed innovative approaches to please and nourish children with cancer.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center researchers have published new findings that may help explain why brain tumors called glioblastomas are so resistant to treatment.

Sloan-Kettering Institute Director Thomas J. Kelly is the co-recipient of the 2010 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.

An interdisciplinary team from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has shown how antibiotics can disrupt the normal, healthy balance of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract.

Elizabeth A. Morris has been named Chief of the Breast Imaging Service.

Beryl McCormick has been appointed Chief of the External Beam Radiotherapy Service in Manhattan.