Research Awards & Honors | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers are a distinguished group of investigators who have been recognized by national and international organizations for their work in science and medicine.

Listed below are some of the prestigious awards and honors our scientists have received.

Research Awards & Honors

Jeffrey Drebin, surgeon and Chief, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering — Jeffrey Drebin

Chair, Department of Surgery

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

The Mark Ptashne Lab — Mark S. Ptashne

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

Pictured: Joan Massagué — Joan Massagué

Executive Director, GMTEC; Director, Sloan Kettering Institute Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Kathryn Adnerson — Kathryn V. Anderson

Chair, Developmental Biology Program, SKI

Pictured: Dinshaw Patel — Dinshaw Patel

Pictured: Craig Thompson — Craig B. Thompson

President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

The Stewart Shuman Lab — Stewart Shuman

The Mark Ptashne Lab — Mark S. Ptashne

Pictured: Nikola Pavletich — Nikola P. Pavletich

Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI

Pictured: Maria Jasin — Maria Jasin

The Scott Keeney Lab — Scott Keeney

Pictured: Christopher Lima — Christopher D. Lima

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Joan Massagué — Joan Massagué

Executive Director, GMTEC; Director, Sloan Kettering Institute Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Kenneth J. Marians — Kenneth J. Marians

Dean, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School

Pictured: Scott Lowe — Scott W. Lowe

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI; Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

Pictured: Alexandra Joyner — Alexandra Joyner

Pictured: Jerard Hurwitz — Jerard Hurwitz

American Association of the Advancement of Science Fellows

Kathryn Adnerson — Kathryn V. Anderson

Chair, Developmental Biology Program, SKI

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Kenneth J. Marians — Kenneth J. Marians

Dean, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School

Pictured: Scott Lowe — Scott W. Lowe

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI; Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

American Association for Cancer Research Academy Fellows

The José Baselga Lab — José Baselga

Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Hospital

Pictured: Bayard Clarkson — Bayard Clarkson

Jimmie C. Holland, MD -- Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology — Jimmie C. Holland

Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Craig Thompson — Craig B. Thompson

President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

American Cancer Society Medal of Honor

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

American Philosophical Society

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

American Society for Clinical Investigation

Pictured: Jedd Wolchok — Jedd D. Wolchok

Chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service; Member and Attending Physician

Pictured: Peter Bach — Peter B. Bach

Director, Center for Health Policy and Outcomes

Sohail Tavazoie — Sohail Tavazoie

Associate Professor, Rockefeller University, New York

Pictured: Viviane Tabar — Viviane Tabar

Pictured: David Solit — David B. Solit

Director, Marie-Josée & Henry R. Kravis Center for Molecular Oncology

David Scheinberg — David A. Scheinberg

Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI; Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics, MSK

Pictured: Michel Sadelain — Michel Sadelain

Director, Center for Cell Engineering

Pictured: Charles Rudin — Charles M. Rudin

Pictured: Eric Pamer — Eric G. Pamer

Pictured: Kenneth Offit — Kenneth Offit

Pictured: Ingo Mellinghoff — Ingo K. Mellinghoff

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Ross Levine — Ross L. Levine

Memorial Sloan Kettering hematologic oncologist C. Ola Landgren — C. Ola Landgren

Chief, Myeloma Service

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

The Lorenz Studer Lab — Lorenz Studer

Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology

Pictured: Marcel R. M. van den Brink — Marcel R. M. van den Brink

Pictured: Richard Kolesnick — Richard N. Kolesnick

Pictured: Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue — Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue

Director of Genomics Research, David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Pictured: Katharine C. Hsu — Katharine C. Hsu

Professor of Medicine

Pictured: Alan Houghton — Alan Houghton

Pictured: Michael Glickman — Michael S. Glickman

Pictured: James Fagin — James A. Fagin

Chief, Endocrinology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Hospital

Pictured: Bayard Clarkson — Bayard Clarkson

The Emily Cheng Lab — Emily H. Cheng

Attending Pathologist, Department of Pathology; Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Timothy Chan — Timothy A. Chan

Pictured: Renier J. Brentjens — Renier J. Brentjens

Director, Cellular Therapeutics

The José Baselga Lab — José Baselga

Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Hospital

Association of American Physicians

Pictured: Jedd Wolchok — Jedd D. Wolchok

Chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutics Service; Member and Attending Physician

Pictured: Craig Thompson — Craig B. Thompson

President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

David Scheinberg — David A. Scheinberg

Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI; Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics, MSK

Neal Rosen

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Eric Pamer — Eric G. Pamer

Pictured: Kenneth Offit — Kenneth Offit

Pictured: Marcel R. M. van den Brink — Marcel R. M. van den Brink

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Michael Glickman — Michael S. Glickman

Pictured: James Fagin — James A. Fagin

Chief, Endocrinology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Hospital

Pictured: Bayard Clarkson — Bayard Clarkson

The José Baselga Lab — José Baselga

Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Hospital

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Crafoord Science Prize

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award

David Scheinberg — David A. Scheinberg

Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program, SKI; Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics, MSK

Dorothy P. Landon Prize for Translational Cancer Research

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

The Jonathan Goldberg Lab — Jonathan Goldberg

Pictured: Christopher Lima — Christopher D. Lima

Pictured: Scott Lowe — Scott W. Lowe

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI; Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Pictured: Nikola Pavletich — Nikola P. Pavletich

Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI

The Scott Keeney Lab — Scott Keeney

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Jennifer Zallen — Jennifer A. Zallen

Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University Medical Center

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

MacArthur Fellow

The Lorenz Studer Lab — Lorenz Studer

Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology

Massry Prize

The Mark Ptashne Lab — Mark S. Ptashne

National Academy of Medicine Members

Kathryn Adnerson — Kathryn V. Anderson

Chair, Developmental Biology Program, SKI

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

Pictured: Nikola Pavletich — Nikola P. Pavletich

Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI

Pictured: Peter Bach — Peter B. Bach

Director, Center for Health Policy and Outcomes

The José Baselga Lab — José Baselga

Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Hospital

Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS -- Vice President for International Programs; Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology — Sir Murray F. Brennan

Vice President for International Programs; Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology; Director, The Bobst International Center

Lisa M. DeAngelis — Lisa M. DeAngelis

Chair, Department of Neurology; Lillian Rojtman Berkman Chair in Honor of Jerome B. Posner

Jeffrey Drebin, surgeon and Chief, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering — Jeffrey Drebin

Chair, Department of Surgery

Pictured: Zvi Fuks — Zvi Fuks

Jimmie C. Holland, MD -- Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology — Jimmie C. Holland

Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology

Pictured: Hedvig Hricak — Hedvig Hricak

Chair, Department of Radiology

Pictured: Maria Jasin — Maria Jasin

Pictured: Alexandra Joyner — Alexandra Joyner

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

The Steven Larson Lab — Steven M. Larson

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Joan Massagué — Joan Massagué

Executive Director, GMTEC; Director, Sloan Kettering Institute Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

Kenneth Offit, MD -- Chief, Clinical Genetics Service — Kenneth Offit

Chief, Clinical Genetics Service; Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics

Luis Parada — Luis F. Parada

Director, Brain Tumor Center; Albert C. Foster Chair; American Cancer Society Research Professor

Malcolm Pike, Attending Epidemiologist — Malcolm Pike

Attending Epidemiologist

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Peter T. Scardino, MD, FACS -- Chair, Department of Surgery; David H. Koch Chair; Member, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program — Peter T. Scardino

David H. Koch Chair

Memorial Sloan Kettering neurosurgeon Viviane Tabar — Viviane Tabar

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Theresa Feng Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology

Pictured: Craig Thompson — Craig B. Thompson

President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

National Academy of Sciences Members

Kathryn Adnerson — Kathryn V. Anderson

Chair, Developmental Biology Program, SKI

Pictured: Dinshaw Patel — Dinshaw Patel

Pictured: Maria Jasin — Maria Jasin

Pictured: Jerard Hurwitz — Jerard Hurwitz

Pictured: Thomas Kelly — Thomas J. Kelly

Benno S. Schmidt Chair of Cancer Research; Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Pictured: Joan Massagué — Joan Massagué

Executive Director, GMTEC; Director, Sloan Kettering Institute Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program

Pictured: Nikola Pavletich — Nikola P. Pavletich

Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI

The Mark Ptashne Lab — Mark S. Ptashne

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

The Charles Sawyers Lab — Charles L. Sawyers

Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program

Pictured: Craig Thompson — Craig B. Thompson

President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

National Medal of Science

Pictured: Paul Marks — Paul A. Marks

Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research

Pictured: Scott Lowe — Scott W. Lowe

Chair, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program, SKI; Chair, Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Pictured: Nikola Pavletich — Nikola P. Pavletich

Chair, Structural Biology Program, SKI

William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology

The Alexander Rudensky Lab — Alexander Rudensky

Chair, Immunology Program, SKI; Director, Ludwig Center at MSK

Pictured: Michel Sadelain — Michel Sadelain

Director, Center for Cell Engineering

William H. Nichols Medal

Pictured: Joan Massagué — Joan Massagué

Executive Director, GMTEC; Director, Sloan Kettering Institute Member, Cancer Biology & Genetics Program