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Pictured: Scott Callahan, Ken Marians, Lorenz Studer & Richard White
Scott Callahan is the second Gerstner Sloan Kettering student to receive the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation grant, which supports exceptional melanoma research by graduate students.
Pictured: Shefali Krishna & Chong Luo
GSK's Third Biennial Retreat, April 25-26, will feature clinician-scientist Todd R. Golub in Skytop, Pennsylvania.
Pictured: Craig Thompson & Paul Marks
Announcement
Former leader of Memorial Sloan Kettering Paul Marks gives a compelling view of cancer research and treatment over the past 40 years in <em>On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution</em>.
Pictured: Human cell nucleus
Snapshot
The discovery of a molecular process that slows down cell division could provide new understanding about how some cancers develop.
Pictured: Daniel Heller
Video
Learn about Daniel Heller, who creates new nanoscale materials that are specially designed to improve biological research or solve clinical problems.
Blood vessels supply tumors with the nutrients they need to grow.
Decoder
What Is Angiogenesis?
Cancer biologist Robert Benezra explains angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels form, and how it relates to cancer research.
Pictured: Cancer cell on blood vessel
In the Lab
Researchers have gained new understanding of how tumors metastasize by studying the behavior of exceptional breast and lung cancer cells that are capable of entering the brain and surviving there.
Pictured: Jedd Wolchok & Alexander Rudensky
Announcement
Immunologist Alexander Rudensky and medical oncologist and immunologist Jedd Wolchok are investigating innovative ways to use the immune system to fight cancer.
Pictured: Stem cell-derived nerve cells exposed to progerin
In the Lab
A team of Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists has come up with an approach to make stem-cell-derived neurons rapidly age in a cell culture dish. The breakthrough could transform research into Parkinson’s and other late-onset diseases.
Pictured: Emily Casey, Isabel Lam, Ping Chi, Yu Chen, Tullia Lindsten, Craig Thompson, Moriah Nissan & Chong Luo.
Memorial Sloan Kettering President Craig Thompson, his wife, scientist Tullia Lindsten, and husband-and-wife physician-scientists Yu Chen and Ping Chi, discuss the pleasures and challenges of dual-career marriages.