Overview

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, composed of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases and the Sloan-Kettering Institute, is dedicated to excellence in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through patient care, research, and education. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the world's oldest and largest private institution devoted to patient care, education and research into cancer. Years of dynamic collaborations among Memorial Sloan-Kettering basic science researchers and clinicians, coupled with powerful new technologies have allowed us to accelerate the pace of biological understanding.

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Number of peer-reviewed publications

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Examples of large scale inter-institutional collaborations

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Workforce (for 2002)

* SKI tenure and non-tenure faculty.

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 Research Funding (for 2002)

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Research Space

Research space                           300,000 sq ft*

*Net square feet. New research tower to open in early 2006 to add 405,000 nsf laboratory space; 35,000 sq ft building dedicated to animal housing.

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Number of peer-reviewed publications in 2002

Number of Publications                       approximately 1000

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Medical Affiliations

Hospitals

·         Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

·         Outpatient treatment centers:

-Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY

-St. Clare's Hospital in Denville and Dover, NJ

-Mercy Medical Center in Nassau County, Long Island

-Memorial Sloan-Kettering at Hauppauge, Long Island

-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Suffolk Outpatient Center in Commack, Long Island

• The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention is a partnership between MSKCC and North General Hospital in Harlem, and was established by a generous gift from the Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation. The Center includes medical oncologists, oncologic surgeons, nurses, nurse practitioners, patient navigators, and social workers, all committed to ensuring that the residents of Harlem receive the best cancer care and screening services in their own neighborhood.

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Awards

Nobel Prize

Harold Varmus

Medicine, 1989

…for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, with Michael Bishop

National Medal of Science

Harold Varmus

Biological sciences, 2001

Paul A. Marks

Biological Sciences, 1991

Albert Lasker Awards (both Basic Medical Research and Clinical Medical Research)

James E. Rothman,2002

Mark S. Ptashne, 1997

Memberships

National Academy of Sciences membership

Kathryn Anderson

Genetics, 2002

Samuel Danishefsky

Chemistry, 1986

Jerard Hurwitz

Biochemistry, 1974

Thomas Kelly

Microbial Biology, 1992

Paul Marks

Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology, 1973

Joan Massague

Cellular and Developmental Biology, 2000

Lloyd Old

Immunology, 1978

Mark Ptashne

Genetics, 1979

James Rothman

Cellular and Developmental Biology, 1993

Harold Varmus

Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology, 1984

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

Jonathan Goldberg

Structural Biology of Vesicle Transport

Joan Massague

Achievement and Loss of Growth Control

Lee Niswander

Cellular and Molecular Interactions in Vertebrate Embryogenesis

Nikola P. Pavletich

Structural Biology of Pathways Involved in Cancer

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Examples of large scale inter-institutional collaborations

Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program

Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program is training physician-scientists who will become the next generation of leaders in biomedical research. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, The Rockefeller University, and the Sloan-Kettering Institute combine to form one of the few inter-institutional collaborations dedicated to joint MD and PhD training.

In the past 25 years, nearly 150 graduates have been prepared to tackle the urgent medical research needs of society. The Program awards the MD degree from Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the PhD degree from either Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University or The Rockefeller University. Each year approximately 350 students apply for on average 12 positions per year, which are fully funded from start to finish-in part by the National Institutes of Health's Medical Scientist Training Program.

The eminent clinical and research faculties of the three institutions provide a stimulating environment for both basic research and medical training. With over 270 participating faculty members, and an organization that fosters student freedom and independence, the Program offers unparalleled opportunities for individualized research training. Graduates of the Program are thus prepared to lead tomorrow's biomedical research and to carry the knowledge acquired from basic research to the bedside.

The Faculty

The faculties at Cornell, Rockefeller, and Sloan-Kettering are among the most distinguished medical and biomedical scientists in the world. The three institutions are the home for more than 35 members of the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, the combined graduate faculty numbers more than 385 between The Rockefeller University Graduate School and the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences (formed by Cornell University Medical College and the Sloan-Kettering Institute). The size of the graduate faculty ensures that there is broad expertise in all of the major biomedical research disciplines: biochemistry and structural biology; cell and developmental biology; immunology and microbiology; molecular biology and genetics; pharmacology and therapeutics; neuroscience; and physiology and biophysics. The quality and size of the Program faculty and the limited number of students in the Program ensure that the students will receive outstanding research training as well as substantial contact with their advisors and other faculty members.

The Scientific Community

The adjacent campuses of Cornell University Medical College, The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital (New York-Cornell), and the Hospital for Special Surgery comprise a neighborhood of institutions centered at York Avenue and Sixty-Eighth Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (an attractive and safe place to live and a short distance from the cultural highlights of New York City). The institutions host numerous internationally renowned scientists, who present their research in a rich variety of lectures and seminars. The educational experience is further enriched by concerts, shows and other cultural events.

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City College of New York - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Partnership

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has recently funded $250, 000 annually for a five-year joint project involving Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MKSCC) and City College of New York (CCNY). As of June, 2002 MSKCC joins CCNY to plan and establish a strong, sustainable relationship based upon mutual cancer research and training objectives. The primary goals of the partnership are to:

• Encourage and support basic and applied cancer research initiated by CCNY investigators.

• Encourage and support research on health disparities and cancer burden in minority populations initiated by MSKCC investigators.

• Implement joint education and training opportunities to attract minority students at all levels in their careers in cancer research, and to support their career development.

Go to the CCNY/MSKCC partnership webpage

Tri-Institutional Research Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University, its Weill medical College and the Rockefeller University has established  a $160 million collaborative program in basic biological research sparked by a private donor who will contribute half the total investment. The collaboration among the institutions includes the joint recruitment and appointment of a dozen new faculty members, development of shared core facilities and the creation of two tri-institutional graduate training programs: Chemical Biology and Computational Biology and Medicine.

Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences          

For over fifty years the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University (WMCCU) and Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI) have formed a unique academic partnership to provide a graduate education in the medical sciences to tomorrow's scientists.  Each year about 50 students enter the program to pursue a PhD degree in basic biomedical science and conduct their research in the laboratories at SKI or WMC.  There are currently over 200 students matriculated in the program.

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Training Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB)

The Training Program in Chemical Biology is a joint undertaking between The Rockefeller University, the Sloan Kettering Institute in NYC, and Cornell University - both the Ithaca campus and the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences. This new Training Program in Chemical Biology (TPCB) is available to outstanding students who wish to work at the interface between chemistry and biology. The TPCB is part of a larger Tri-Institutional Program in Chemical Biology, which draws upon unparalleled resources available to the three institutions to create a unique research and educational environment. The Program fosters groundbreaking achievements in biomedical science by providing access to the most advanced state-of-the-art technologies and opportunities for discovery in chemical biology.

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Contact Information

Linda Stevenson

Director

Research & Training Administration

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Avenue

New York, NY 10021

Phone: 212-639-2000

E-mail: stevensl@mskcc.org

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