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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.
Dinshaw J. Patel
Dinshaw J. Patel, a Member in Sloan Kettering Institute's Structural Biology Program and incumbent of the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Therapeutics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at its 146th annual meeting in April.
Jennifer A. Zallen
Jennifer A. Zallen, a member of the Developmental Biology Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute, has been selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) as an Early Career Scientist.
Grégoire Altan-Bonnet
Memorial Sloan Kettering's Boards of Overseers and Managers have announced the creation of the Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chairs and have named the first two incumbents: Sloan Kettering Institute's Grégoire Altan-Bonnet and Songhai Shi.
Picture: Joan Massagué
New research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center identifies three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or spread, of breast cancer to the brain and illuminates the mechanisms by which this spread occurs.
Pictured: Joan Massagué
Joan Massagué, Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards.