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A multicenter study led by Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers has answered an important question about the safety of using carbon nanotubes in medicine.
Craig B. Thompson, MD
Craig B. Thompson, MD, has been named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center effective November 2, 2010. His appointment concludes a search that began in January 2010.
Doctors operating
On June 7 when Memorial Sloan Kettering opened a facility housing the novel Center for Image-Guided Interventions, a suite of endoscopy rooms, and new operating rooms for the Surgical Day Hospital.
Rendering of a primary tumor mass with adjoining blood vessels (shown in red). Cells that have detached from the tumor and entered the bloodstream (shown as spheres) may circle back to the tumor and enhance its growth and aggressiveness.
A recent Memorial Sloan Kettering study shows that some circulating tumor cells can circle back and infiltrate their tumor of origin, enhancing its growth and aggressiveness.
Christopher Lima (left) and Derek Tan revealed the mechanism of a key cellular process.
A collaborative team of researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering has determined the mechanism for a biological process that plays a key role in regulating cellular behavior.
Eric Pamer (right) and Joao Xavier
Memorial Sloan Kettering has created a new multidisciplinary research center that promises to shed light on the role that microbes and the body's inflammatory and immunological responses to them play in the development of cancer.
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.
Hedvig Hricak
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.
Dinshaw Patel (left) and David Allis
Linking Histones and Cancer
Structural biologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are collaborating with biochemists and cell biologists at The Rockefeller University to study how cells read genetic instructions imprinted on histones, DNA's packaging proteins.
Joan Massagué, PhD
New research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center sheds light on a genetic function that gives breast cancer cells the ability to survive and spread to the bone years after treatment has been administered.