Center News Magazine: October 2008

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Clinical Genetics Service has a staff of genetic counselors who offer information and education about genetic risk factors for families who have chosen to be tested.

Physician-scientist Michael S. Glickman specializes in the treatment and study of infectious diseases.

Scott N. Keeney, a member of the Molecular Biology Program within the Sloan-Kettering Institute, was one of 56 researchers to be appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator in 2008.

Investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering have developed a new tool that could help them advance the understanding of human embryonic stem cells.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Department of Pediatrics patients celebrate high school graduations at second annual Convocation.

Only one percent of the nation's nurses earn such a degree, yet this year a record four nurses at Memorial Sloan-Kettering reached this highest level of educational achievement.

To improve the understanding of cancer and its biology the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center sponsored a research retreat in May.

Hundreds of patients and their families filled the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium on June 10 to mark National Survivorship Day.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Junior Faculty Council presented its 2008 Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Alan N. Houghton, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine and incumbent of the Virginia and Daniel K. Ludwig Clinical Chair.

Peter T. Scardino, Chair of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Department of Surgery, has been named the incumbent of a newly endowed David H. Koch Chair.