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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's videos feature our leading scientists highlighting the latest advances in biomedical research. Our investigators explain how recent developments in g...

Episodes

20 episodes

Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research 2013: Introduction with Memorial Sloan Kettering’s President and CEO (Part 1 of 4)

Runtime 12:49 Craig Thompson welcomes high school students to the eighth annual Memorial Sloan Kettering Major Trends in Modern Cancer lectu...

14:49Jun 20, 2014

The Cancer Epigenome: Biology’s New Frontier (Part 2 of 4) 2013

Runtime 28:39 Leukemia expert Omar Abdel-Wahab says new therapies that reverse epigenetics — chemical changes within cells that drive...

28:39Jun 20, 2014

Travels on the Bi-Orient Express: Cell Division in Normal Cells and in Cancer (Part 3 of 4) 2013

Runtime 30:29 Scientist Emily Foley discusses the mechanics of cell division and its relevance to developing new cancer treatments. read mor...

30:29Jun 20, 2014

Zebrafish Melanoma: From Initiation to Metastasis (Part 4 of 4)

Runtime 29:12 Oncologist and cancer biologist Richard White explains how his research with genetically modified zebrafish, which reproduce q...

29:12Jun 20, 2014

2012 Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research

Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig Thompson along with neuropathologist Jason Huse and immunologist Morgan Huse explain how re...

Jun 20, 2014

Which Way Is Up?: How T Cells Adjust Their Orientation to Selectively Mount Immune Responses (Part 3 of 3)

Runtime 34:13 Immunologist Morgan Huse discusses how the orientation of T cells — a type of white blood cell — affects the way they mount an...

34:13Jun 20, 2014

Seeing Order in Chaos: How Molecular Pathology Facilitates the Personalization of Cancer Treatment (Part 2 of 3) 2012

Runtime 31:32 Neuropathologist Jason Huse discusses personalized medicine and how studying the molecular pathology of patients’ tumors can l...

31:32Jun 20, 2014

Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research 2012: Discussion with Memorial Sloan Kettering’s President (Part 1 or 3)

Runtime 31:12 Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig B. Thompson welcomes attendees to the seventh annual Major Trends in Modern C...

31:12Jun 20, 2014

2011 Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research

Runtime 110:45 Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig Thompson along with cancer biologist Andrea Ventura, molecular biologist Ies...

110:45Jan 5, 2012

Finding Needles in the Haystack: Making Inroads into the Cancer Genome (Part 3 of 3) 2010

Runtime 39:00 Physician-scientist Timothy A. Chan discusses cancer genomics at the forefront of cancer research and how developments have al...

39:00Feb 11, 2011

How Molecules Work to Make and Shape a Cell : Insights into Tissue Development and Homeostasis (Part 2 of 3) 2010

Runtime 37:00 Developmental biologist Mary K. Baylies discusses the mechanisms that drive cells and how genetic approaches in flies have all...

37:00Feb 11, 2011

Why We All Don't Get Cancer (Part 1 of 3) 2010

Runtime 32:00 Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses new ways to think about cancer and h...

32:00Feb 11, 2011

How Imaging Techniques Play an Important role in Cancer Drug Discovery as well as in Screening, Tumor Characterization, and Assessment of Treatment Responses (Part 3 of 3) 2009

Runtime 36:34 Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lawrence Schwartz, discusses the role of imaging in detection, characterization, staging...

36:34Dec 30, 2009

How Modern Genomic Techniques Can Be Used to Identify Novel Mutations in Human Cancers and to Develop Molecularly Targeted Therapies (Part 2 of 3) 2009

Runtime 40:38 Physician-scientist, Ross Levine, discusses how the study of genomic techniques can lead to the development of new treatments....

40:38Dec 30, 2009

Introduction by Memorial Sloan Kettering President Harold Varmus (Part 1 of 3) 2009

Runtime 04:19 Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has served as the President of Memorial Sloan...

04:19Dec 30, 2009

Question and Answer Session (Part 5 of 5) 2008

Runtime 20:43 Students ask our scientists questions about research at Memorial Sloan Kettering and current cancer topics. read more

20:43Nov 6, 2008

How Genetic Mutations Influence Cancer Risk and How Hereditary Predisposition Influences Cancer (Part 4 of 5) 2008

Runtime 23:52 Medical oncologist Kenneth Offit explains inherited mutations, hereditary disease, and its influences on cancer. read more

23:52Nov 6, 2008

How Cell Division Plays a Central Role in Human Health and Disease (Part 3 of 5) 2008

Runtime 33:55 Molecular biologist Prasad Jallepalli explains fundamental machinery and mechanisms of how cells divide. read more

33:55Nov 6, 2008

How Molecules and Signals Control Cell Behavior During Normal Embryonic Development and in Tumors (Part 2 of 5) 2008

Runtime 23:31 Developmental biologist Kathryn Anderson explains developmental biology and its relationship to cancer mutations occurring dur...

23:31Nov 6, 2008

Introduction by Memorial Sloan Kettering President Harold Varmus (Part 1 of 5) 2008

Runtime 02:57 Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has served as the President of Memorial Sloan...

02:57Nov 6, 2008