Press Releases

and/or
572 News Releases found
MSK Awards & Appointments October 2021

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.
Solit, Chakravarty, Schultz
FDA Grants Partial Recognition Status to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Precision Oncology Knowledge Database

OncoKB®, a precision oncology knowledge database developed by MSK researchers and physicians, has received partial recognition status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Deb Schrag
Deb Schrag, MD, MPH, Named Chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Deb Schrag, MD, MPH, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
Phillip Rappold
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Announces New Early-Career Physician Research Program in Cancer Science

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. makes a generous $25 million commitment to establish the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Physician Scholars Program.
Dana Pe'er, PhD
Sloan Kettering Institute’s Dana Pe’er Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Dana Pe’er, PhD, computational biologist and lab head at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s (MSK) Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI), is one of 33 biomedical researchers named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator today.
Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, and Andrew Kung, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Launches New Center to Expand Commitment to Meeting the Unique Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

The Lisa and Scott Stuart Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers will revolutionize cancer treatment for people ages 15 to 39.
Luis Alberto Diaz, Jr.
President Biden Appoints MSK’s Luis Alberto Diaz, Jr., MD, to National Cancer Advisory Board

President Biden announced the appointment of seven distinguished clinicians and researchers to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Luis Alberto Diaz, Jr., MD, was among those appointed.
MSK Awards & Appointments September 2021

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.
Tracy Gosselin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Appoints Tracy Gosselin as Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, and Chair of Nursing

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has appointed Tracy Gosselin, PhD, RN, AOCN, NEA-BC, FAAN, as Senior Vice President, Chief Nurse Executive, and Chair of Nursing effective November 2021.
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Receives Highly Competitive NCI SPORE Grant for Leukemia Research with a Focus on Acute Myeloid Leukemia

MSK’s SPORE grant in leukemia has the potential to develop practice-changing approaches, evaluation, and management that may lead to improved patient outcomes for AML.