Each summer, four summer students are named Rubin and Sarah Shaps Scholars. They are selected on the basis of their outstanding undergraduate credentials and their performance in our Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
Fifth-year graduate student Semanti Mukherjee was awarded the Chairman’s Prize for her first-author paper that was accepted for publication in the May 2011 issue of Human Heredity.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center researchers have identified a feature in the DNA of breast cancer cells that might indicate the likelihood a woman’s disease will become life threatening.
Charles L. Sawyers, Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, is a co-recipient of the 2011 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
