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Staff involved in implementing the new technology for diagnosing gene mutations in tumors include (from left) Marc Ladanyi, Angela Marchetti, Chris Lau, Laetitia Borsu, and Khedoudja Nafa.
New Technology Will Improve Molecular Testing of Tumors for Patients

Memorial Sloan Kettering has made an important step forward in efficiently diagnosing gene mutations in patients' cancers on an individual basis.
Joan Massagué leads Memorial Sloan Kettering's Metastasis Research Center
Opening Cancer's Black Box

The Metastasis Research Center has brought together 27 Memorial Sloan Kettering laboratories to facilitate research on metastasis and its treatment.
Andrea Ventura
An Interview with Andrea Ventura

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.
Hedvig Hricak
Hedvig Hricak Named President of Radiological Society

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.
Pictured: Eric Holland, Franziska Michor, and Desert Horse-Grant
New Center Uses Mathematical Models to Understand Cancer

In October 2009, a team of eight researchers, six of whom are at Memorial Sloan Kettering, received an $11 million, five-year grant from the NCI to form one of 12 Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OCs) in the United States.
Timothy A. Chan
Researchers Link Gene that Causes Parkinson's Disease to Cancer

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.
Samuel Singer
Samuel Singer Appointed Service Chief

Samuel Singer has been appointed Chief of the Gastric and Mixed Tumor Service in the Department of Surgery.
Postdoctoral researchers discuss a poster presentation
Work of Postdoctoral Researchers Spotlighted at Third Annual Symposium

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.
Simon Powell
An Interview With Simon Powell

Dr. Powell joined Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2008 as Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology with a joint appointment in Sloan Kettering Institute's Molecular Biology Program.
Francis M. Sirotnak
FDA Approves Lymphoma Drug Developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Patients with a rare but aggressive form of cancer now have access to a drug that has proven effective after the disease becomes resistant to standard treatments.