Collaborative Research Centers

Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s collaborative research centers draw on the breadth of our scientific expertise, bringing together laboratory investigators and clinicians from different disciplines to focus on key areas in cancer research. Our goal is to advance the current understanding of tumor biology and to explore new ways to cure, control, and prevent disease.

Learn more about our collaborative research centers.

Pictured: Philip Gutin, Eric Holland & Lisa DeAngelis
Brain Tumor Center

The Brain Tumor Center was established to foster a new level of collaboration between Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s clinical and research arms.

Pictured: Philip Gutin, Eric Holland & Lisa DeAngelis
Pictured: Isabelle Riviere, Michel Sadelain & Renier Brentjens
Center for Cell Engineering

The Center for Cell Engineering at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was established to take advantage of the important strides being made in the genetic engineering of human cells.

Pictured: Isabelle Riviere, Michel Sadelain & Renier Brentjens
Pictured: Peter Bach
Center for Health Policy & Outcomes

The Center for Health Policy and Outcomes is working to develop evidence-based policy approaches that promote high-quality care and improve patient outcomes.

Pictured: Peter Bach
Pictured: Lorenz Studer
Center for Stem Cell Biology

The Center for Stem Cell Biology was established to serve as a hub for existing stem cell efforts at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and supports targeted recruitment of stem cell faculty and resources for stem cell research.

Pictured: Lorenz Studer
Pictured: Neil Lipman
Center of Comparative Medicine & Pathology

The Center of Comparative Medicine and Pathology is focused on animal research support, the training of specialists in laboratory animal medicine, comparative and genomic pathology, and translational and collaborative research.

Pictured: Neil Lipman
Pictured: David Scheinberg
Experimental Therapeutics Center

The Experimental Therapeutics Center assembles a diverse group of physicians and scientists from within Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and supports their basic science and clinical research.

Pictured: David Scheinberg
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Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

The Geoffrey Beene Center unites researchers from the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and the Sloan-Kettering Institute’s Cancer Biology and Genetics Program to develop new approaches for preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer.

Pictured: Scott Lowe
Pictured: Ingo Mellinghoff
Human Oncology & Pathogenesis Program

Our teams of physician-scientists are working to translate molecular insights into new treatments for cancer.

Pictured: Ingo Mellinghoff
Pictured: Joao Xavier & Eric Pamer
Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation & Cancer

The Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation, and Cancer was established to shed light on the role that microbes and the body’s inflammatory and immunological responses to them play in the development of cancer.

Pictured: Joao Xavier & Eric Pamer
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Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy

The focus of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy is on research to explore and develop innovative therapies that act by stimulating or strengthening the immune system’s inherent ability to fight cancer.

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Pictured: Tim Ahles & Karen Hubbard
Memorial Sloan-Kettering / City College of New York Partnership

Memorial Sloan-Kettering has partnered with CCNY to improve cancer research, training, education, and outreach for underserved communities in the New York area.

Pictured: Tim Ahles & Karen Hubbard
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Metastasis Research Center

The Metastasis Research Center brings together a diverse group of basic scientists and clinicians who are conducting research in the area of metastasis and supports their research initiatives with funds for metastasis research.

Pictured: Joan Massagué
Pictured: Hedvig Hricak & David Scheinberg
Nanotechnology Center

The Nanotechnology Center is a multidisciplinary, multidepartmental program that seeks to promote and facilitate the development of nanotechnologies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and related diseases.

Pictured: Hedvig Hricak & David Scheinberg
Pictured: Franziska Michor & Eric Holland
Physical Science-Oncology Center

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was recently selected as one of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Physicial Science-Oncology Centers (PS-OCs).

Pictured: Franziska Michor & Eric Holland
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