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Pictured: Tunneling Nanotubes
Snapshot
Tunneling Nanotubes Connect Cancer Cells

Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers have discovered a way that cancer cells may be able to exchange information by establishing long bridges between cells called tunneling nanotubes.
Pictured: Marta Kovatcheva & Andrew Koff
Gerster Sloan Kettering Graduate School Awards Fellowships

Gerstner Sloan Kettering student research has been recognized with the Grayer Fellowships, the Catell Fellowship, the Olayan Fellowship, the Palestin Fellowship, and the Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowship.
Pictured: Ross Levine
In the Lab
Researchers Discover Why Some Leukemia Drugs Are Not Sufficiently Effective

Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers have found why certain drugs are not sufficiently effective in treating leukemias called myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Pictured: Filippo Giancotti
In the Lab
Researchers Shed Light on Why Some Breast Cancers Spread to the Lungs

A new Memorial Sloan Kettering study has identified one of the proteins fueling the spread of some breast cancers, and researchers hope their findings will lead to the development of new diagnostic tools and drugs.
Pictured: Alexandria Miller
Alexandria Miller Awarded Chairman’s Prize

Sixth-year graduate student Alexandria Miller was awarded the Chairman’s Prize for her first-author paper accepted for publication in the January 28, 2012 issue of <em>Science</em>.
Pictured: Joan Massagué
In the Lab
Study Links Cancer’s Ability to Spread with Chemotherapy Resistance

A team of investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering has shown for the first time that tumor growth, metastasis, and chemotherapy resistance are connected to the same molecular changes inside breast cancer cells.
Pictured: Douglas Levine and Petar Jelinic
In the Lab
New Web Tool Helps Researchers Explore How the Genome Changes in Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering investigators hope their new web tool will improve the accessibility of large-scale genome-sequencing information for cancer researchers everywhere, and accelerate research and therapeutic discovery.
Pictured: Nikola Pavletich and Alexander Rudensky
Honors
Two Memorial Sloan Kettering Investigators Named to National Academy of Sciences

Structural Biology Program Chair Nikola P. Pavletich and immunologist Alexander Y. Rudensky have received one of the highest honors given to scientists working in the United States.
Pictured: Graduates
Event
First Four Students Receive Doctoral Degrees from Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

As part of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s 33rd annual academic convocation on May 11, the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded PhDs to four graduates.
Pictured: Jedd Wolchok and James Allison
In the News
The New Yorker Features Immune Therapy Work of Memorial Sloan Kettering Researchers

In an article describing the history and promise of immunotherapy for cancer treatment, the magazine highlights the groundbreaking work of James Allison, Chair of the Sloan Kettering Institute's Immunology Program, and medical oncologist and immunologist Jedd Wolchok.