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Pictured: Fall 2011 first-year PhD students
Welcome to our First-Year PhD Students

Gerstner Sloan Kettering welcomed its sixth class of PhD students on July 25, 2011. The incoming class is composed of three women and seven men.
Congratulations to our 2011 Shaps Scholars

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.
Pictured: Semanti Mukherjee
Semanti Mukherjee Awarded Chairman's Prize

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 <em>Human Heredity</em>.
Charles Sawyers
Charles Sawyers Receives Korsmeyer Award

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.
Brett Carver
Memorial Sloan Kettering Researchers Discover How Prostate Cancer Disease Pathways Regulate Each Other

Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers have discovered that the AR and PI3K disease pathways regulate each other through reciprocal negative feedback.
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New Tool to Predict Breast Cancer Metastasis

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.
Pictured: Maria Jasin
Studies Provide New Insight into Fundamental Biological Process

Developmental biologist Maria Jasin studies homologous recombination, which is important in DNA repair and can lead to cancer when it malfunctions.
Pictured: Ross Levine
Gene Mutation Contributes To Leukemia By Enhancing Function Of Blood Stem Cells

Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers helped to identify a key insight into what first goes wrong in the development of many leukemias.
Summer Undergraduate Research Program

The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) will welcome 25 students to this year's ten-week program.
Pictured: Ken Marians, Lorenz Studer, Greg Safko, Susan Bancroft & Yvonne Gruber
Gerstner Sloan Kettering Student Awarded Melanoma Research Grant

Fourth-year student Yvonne Gruber was awarded a $10,000 melanoma research grant by the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation.