Center News Magazine: February 2010

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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Pituitary Tumor Center was established to treat pituitary tumor patients in a specialized, multidisciplinary fashion.

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.

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.

The fourth annual symposium drew a large audience of student from local high schools.

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 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 has been appointed Chief of the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service in the Department of Surgery.

Vivek Tim Malhotra has been named Chief of the Anesthesiology Pain Service in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.

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.