November 2006

November 2006 - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center takes a major step into the future, dedicated to answering the critical 21st-century questions about cancer biology and to speeding the translation of basic discoveries into effective therapies for patients.

November 2006 - Nearly 500 students and teachers from more than 40 New York-area high schools filled the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium for Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research.

November 2006 - An overflow crowd of Center staff and the public gathered in the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium to hear an afternoon of talks, by distinguished guest speakers, entitled Science and Society in the 21st Century.

November 2006 - A shoulder-to-shoulder crowd of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center staff, Board members, and friends of the institution thronged the Cyber Lounge and 69th Street lobby of The Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center on September 21 for a program marking its official opening.

November 2006 - Charles L. Sawyers recently came to Memorial Sloan-Kettering from the University of California, Los Angeles, to lead the new Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP).

November 2006 - Hundreds of patients and their families filled the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium this summer for a program marking National Survivorship Day.

November 2006 - Memorial Sloan-Kettering researchers have demonstrated in mice that red blood cell precursors derived from bone marrow stem cells could be engineered to produce a secreted protein at therapeutic levels over a prolonged period.

November 2006 - A multi-institutional study led by Memorial Sloan-Kettering pediatric endocrinologist Charles A. Sklar has identified the incidence of and risk factors for early menopause in childhood cancer survivors.

November 2006 - Center researchers report that flavopiridol represents a possible new treatment for gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), the most common sarcoma of the gastrointestinal tract.

November 2006 - James A. Fagin has been appointed a Member of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Chief of the Endocrinology Service in the Department of Medicine, and a member of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program.

November 2006 - Hepatobiliary surgeon Ronald P. DeMatteo has been named Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Head of the department's new Division of General Surgical Oncology. He was also named Director of the fellowship training program in general surgical oncology.