Lectures, Seminars, and More
Our students actively engage in Memorial Sloan-Kettering's full calendar of colloquia, including lecture series, research seminars, and visits by world-renowned scientists. These events are designed to stimulate open and vigorous dialogue among students, speakers, and faculty.
We also encourage students to take advantage of New York City's status as a world-class center of biomedical research, biotechnology, and education. The New York Academy of Sciences opens its doors to students for a lively array of events, and also sponsors the programs of the New York Science Alliance of Graduate Students and Postdocs. Other regional resources include the opportunity to attend roundtables and workshops offered by the New York Biotechnology Association (NYBA), a not-for-profit association committed to the development of New York's biotechnology industry, or to get involved with AMDeC (Academic Medical Development Company), a consortium of 35 healthcare organizations, medical schools, and research institutions created to foster New York biomedical initiatives.
Finally, our neighbors, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and The Rockefeller University, welcome our students at their symposia and special events, including such cultural offerings as the Tri-Institutional Noon Recitals, which showcase international concert artists of the highest caliber.
Our Campus and Beyond
Located between 66th and 69th Streets, our campus is situated in the heart of Manhattan's Upper East Side, home to some of New York City's best shopping and dining establishments. Close proximity to New York's famed Central Park offers a full array of outdoor activities with its idyllic paths, ponds, and meadows, its miles of bicycling, running, and skating venues, tennis courts, skating rinks, outdoor concerts, and much more. And bordering our campus is the East River promenade. Featuring a busy bicycling, running, and skating path, the promenade inspires with its breathtaking views of the East River and the many bridges that connect Manhattan to Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.
The campus is within walking distance of world-famous museums -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Frick Collection, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the City of New York Museum. And the rest of New York's rich cultural, athletic, and entertainment resources are easily accessible using the city's affordable and extensive public transportation system.
Beyond Gerstner Sloan-Kettering, the city itself -- home to scholars, artists, writers, and others who have been drawn here to teach, perform, create, and study -- becomes an extension of our neighborhood. The cultural and intellectual vibrancy of New York City is unmatched in its vigor, richness, and diversity.
Taken together, this exciting vital city and its thriving community of science become a second home to our students during their time at the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School, providing them with professional fellowship, intellectual stimulation, and support.
Science & New York City
Often called the nation's capital for finance, fashion, broadcasting, and the arts, New York City is also home to a thriving biomedical research community. With its vast academic, clinical, pharmaceutical, and financial resources, and stimulating intellectual life, there is no more exhilarating place in which to live, work, and prepare for a future at the leading edge of scientific research.
Each year, the city's educational institutions produce more PhDs in the life sciences than any other US city. To help support this research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted New York City's research institutions, medical schools, and hospitals more funding than any other city from 1999 through 2004. In 2005, the NIH awarded a five-year grant totalling some $20 million to the recently created, state-of-the art New York Structural Biology Center (NYSBC) to establish The New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure, a specialized center that will focus on a key class of proteins that function as the portals through which cells communicate with the external environment.
In addition, New York-area charitable foundations make over $150 million in grants annually to healthcare-related projects. A recent three-year, $50-million grant from The Starr Foundation to Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Weill Medical College, and The Rockefeller University, created the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative. This builds on existing ties among the three institutions to emphasize collaborative studies aimed at a better understanding of stem cells and their therapeutic potential.
What's more, development is now underway for the city's first major bioscience office park. East River Science Park is expected to be completed in 2008 and will provide a 4.7 acre site that can accommodate nearly a million square feet of office and laboratory space for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and bioinformatics companies, as well as contract research organizations. The space is expected to create an estimated 2,000 permanent bioscience jobs over the next decade.
The list of New York City's bioscience credentials is constantly growing. The New York Bioscience Initiative offers a comprehensive overview of the region's science and healthcare assets.
