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Jennifer A. Zallen
Jennifer Zallen Selected as Early Career Scientist By Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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.
Memorial Sloan Kettering President Attends White House Signing
Memorial Sloan Kettering President Harold Varmus joined lawmakers, scientists, and patients on March 9 at a White House ceremony as President Barack Obama issued an executive order lifting the strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research.
Grégoire Altan-Bonnet
Two Young Investigators Named to New Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chairs
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.
Dr. Charles Sawyers
Memorial Sloan Kettering Investigator Named Dream Team Leader by Stand Up To Cancer
Charles Sawyers, MD, Director of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named a "Dream Team" leader by Stand Up To Cancer and will co-lead a collaborative team that will receive $15 million to study targeted therapies to treat women's cancers.
Picture: Joan Massagué
Genes Found to Play a Role in Breast Cancer's Spread to the Brain
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
Cancer Biologist Joan Massagué Honored on Two Continents
Joan Massagué, Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute, has been named the recipient of two prestigious awards.
Charles L. Sawyers
Charles Sawyers Awarded Landon Prize
Charles L. Sawyers, Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, has been awarded the 2009 Dorothy P. Landon Prize for Translational Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
David A. Scheinberg
David Scheinberg Elected to the Association of American Physicians
David A. Scheinberg has been elected a member of the prestigious Association of American Physicians (AAP).
Charles Sawyers, MD
Drug Shows Activity in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer
A new multi-center study shows that an experimental drug lowers prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels - a marker for tumor growth - in men with advanced prostate cancer for whom traditional treatment options have failed.
Gerstner Sloan Kettering first-year student Armine Matevossian conducts an experiment.
A Day in the Life: A Glimpse into the World of Two Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School Students
A glimpse into the world of two Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School students.