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Memorial Sloan Kettering doctors, including oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, psychiatrists, and more, treat every cancer type and are part of your care team at MSK. To learn about our doctors, find a specialist near you, or make an appointment, please see our listings below. You can search by disease, location, department, treatment procedure, and language spoken.

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Pathologist

Douglas Allison, MD
Associate Director, Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program; Assistant Attending Pathologist

Office Phone
(212) 639-7053

Locations
New York, NY

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Radiation Oncologist

Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD
Director, Metastatic Program, Department of Radiation Oncology

Office Phone
212-639-5159

Locations
New York, NY; Basking Ridge, NJ

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Gynecologic Surgeon

Aaron M Praiss, MD
Assistant Attending Surgeon

Office Phone
(212) 639-4865

Locations
New York, NY; Commack, NY; Uniondale, NY

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Radiation Oncologist

Joachim Yahalom, MD, FACR
Attending Radiation Oncologist

Office Phone
646-608-2639

Locations
New York, NY

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Internist

Deepti Zalavadia, MD
Assistant Attending Physician

Office Phone
(646) 888-4095

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Neurologist & Neuro-Oncologist

Lauren Schaff, MD
Associate Director, Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Program

New Patient Appointments
212-639-6767

Office Phone
212-610-0485

Locations
New York, NY; Montvale, NJ

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Radiation Oncologist

Beryl McCormick, MD, FACR
Attending Radiation Oncologist

New Patient Appointments
855-602-1548

Office Phone
212-639-6828

Locations
Middletown, NJ

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Hospitalist

Victoria Gore, MD
Assistant Attending Physician

Locations
New York, NY

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Anesthesiologist

Anoushka Afonso, MD
Director, Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS)

Office Phone
212-639-8113

Locations
New York, NY

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Radiologist

Karem Gharzeddine, MD, DABR
Assistant Attending Radiologist

Office Phone
212-639-8953

Our Focus Is Discovery

For more than 70 years, the Sloan Kettering Institute has set the pace for biomedical science.

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[H1] Welcome to Sloan Kettering Institute
The Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI) is the basic and translational research arm of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Discoveries made in SKI labs are an important driver of clinical progress at MSK and beyond. Our research spans nine program areas:

Cancer Biology & Genetics

Cell Biology

Chemical Biology

Computational & Systems Biology

Developmental Biology

Immunology

Molecular Biology

Molecular Pharmacology

Structural Biology

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Abdel-Wahab, Omar

Akhmanova, Maria

An, Heeseon

Aviram, Naama

Bachovchin, Daniel

Baylies, Mary

Begg, Colin

Brady, Sean

Chaudhuri, Jayanta

Chiosis, Gabriela

Chodera, John

Choi, Junhong

Dar, Arvin

David, Yael

Dey, Kushal

Diehl, Gretchen

Diver, Melinda M.

Farese, Robert

Finley, Lydia

Funabiki, Hironori

Funabiki, Hironori

Ganesh, Karuna

Geissmann, Frederic

Gitlin, Alexander

Gladkova, Christina

Glickman, Michael S.

Goldberg, Jonathan

Grimm, Jan

Hadjantonakis, Anna-Katerina

Heller, Daniel A.

Hite, Richard

Hsu, Katharine C.

Huangfu, Danwei

Huse, Morgan

Jallepalli, Prasad

Jasin, Maria

Jiang, Xuejun

Keeney, Scott

Kelly, Thomas J.

Kentsis, Alex

Keshari, Kayvan R.

Kharas, Michael G.

Kolesnick, Richard N.

Lai, Eric C.

Lareau, Caleb

Lee, Joo-Hyeon

Leslie, Christina

Lewis, Jason S.

Li, Mengtong

Li, Ming

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Lima, Christopher D.

Long, Stephen B.

Lowe, Scott W.

Luo, Minkui

Maciejowski, John

Marians, Kenneth J.

Massagué, Joan

Mayr, Christine

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Offit, Kenneth

Ordureau, Alban

Overholtzer, Michael

Parada, Luis F.

Patel, Dinshaw

Pavletich, Nikola P.

Pe'er, Dana

Perry, Justin

Pertsinidis, Alexandros

Petrini, John

Powell, Simon N.

Remus, Dirk

Resh, Marilyn

Rudensky, Alexander

Rudin, Charles M.

Ryan, Timothy A.

Scheinberg, David A.

Schietinger, Andrea

Sfeir, Agnel

Sherman, Mara

Sheu-Gruttadauria, Jessica

Shuman, Stewart

Studer, Lorenz

Sun, Joseph

Tabar, Viviane

Tammela, Tuomas

Tan, Derek

Taylor, Kathryn

Thompson, Craig B.

Tsou, Meng-Fu Bryan

Ventura, Andrea

Vierbuchen, Thomas S.

Walther, Tobias

Wendel, Hans-Guido

Whitehouse, Iestyn

Wilkinson, Max

Xavier, Joao

Yang, Xinbo

Zallen, Jennifer A.

Zhao, Xiaolan

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This Is SKI

Discover how SKI is moving cancer science forward.

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[H2] A Collaborative Approach
Collaboration is a hallmark of the research enterprise at SKI. Our scientists collaborate across programs, across disciplines, and across institutions.
Collaborative Research Centers
Researchers from SKI and Memorial Hospital join forces in 23 established Collaborative Research Centers. These centers bring together laboratory scientists and clinicians to spark innovation.
Joint Graduate Programs
SKI enjoys close relationships with neighbors Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine, and partners with them in several joint graduate programs.
Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute
This innovative partnership between MSK, Rockefeller, Weill Cornell, and industry aims to speed the translation of basic scientific discoveries into promising new medicines.

[IMG: The Center for Cancer Systems Immunology brings together faculty from across the Sloan Kettering Institute, such as Alexander Rudensky (left) and Christina Leslie (right).]

Immunologist Alexander Rudensky (right) directs the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, one of the collaborative research centers that makes SKI an exciting place to do science.

Featured News and Events

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MSK’s Sloan Kettering Institute Celebrates 75 Years of Discovery

Over the last seven and a half decades, researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have made important contributions to the fundamental understanding of human biology, as well as driven practice-changing innovations in the treatment of cancer.

MSK Scientists Identify Potential New Strategy Against Metastasis

A team of scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute has identified the STING cellular signaling pathway as a key player in keeping dormant cancer cells from progressing into aggressive tumors months, or even years, after they’ve escaped from a primary tumor.

Getting Drugs Across the Blood-Brain Barrier Using Nanoparticles

Learn how MSK researchers are investigating the use of nanoparticles to carry drugs across the blood-brain barrier.

[H1] Scientific Education & Training Programs
A vital aspect of our mission is to train the next generation of scientific leaders and prepare them to face tomorrow’s challenges.Memorial Sloan Kettering offers advanced training programs for postdoctoral researchers and PhD and MD-PhD candidates. We also host a selection of educational and training programs for aspiring researchers at the high school and college levels.

[H2] Postdoctoral Training

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Training the scientific leaders of tomorrow as part of our commitment to biomedical researchLearn more

[H2] PhD & MD/PhD Education

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Explore our graduate programs, which offer comprehensive and unique curricula at the intersection of the biomedical sciences and the management of cancer.Learn more

High School Programs

Explore the research internship options available to high school students from the greater New York area.
Summer Student Program

Science Enrichment Program

Bridge to Biostats Summer Program (B2BSP)

Summer Scientific Undergraduate Programs

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Find summer research immersion opportunities for college students across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Chemical Biology Summer Program (ChBSP)

Computational Biology Summer Program (CBSP)

Engineering and Imaging Summer Program (EISP)

Immunology Research Summer Program (IRSP)

Mechanistic Biology Summer Program (MBSP)

Quantitative Sciences Undergraduate Research Experience (QSURE)

Late College/Gap Year Programs

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Learn about MSK’s summer-to-gap year programs and other post-baccalaureate training programs.
MSK Bridge

MSK Engage

Programs for Master’s Students

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This full-time, on campus research experience allows students to fully engage with mentors and the multidisciplinary research team on cutting-edge genomics projects with the goal to propel them into genomics-oriented data science careers.
Genomics Experience for Master’s Students (GEMS)

Scientific Courses & Bootcamps

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Find courses in immunology and single cell sequencing to take at MSK.
The Immuno-Oncology for the Translational Research Short Course (ITRSC)

Single-Cell Analysis Learning Enrichment (SCALE) Course

View education and training opportunities for healthcare professionals