Research Podcast | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratings

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 genetics, biology, and other areas of science contribute to better treatments for cancer patients.

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Episodes

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

June 20, 2014 20:06 - 14 minutes - 45.4 MB Video

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

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

June 20, 2014 20:01 - 28 minutes - 101 MB Video

Runtime 28:39 Leukemia expert Omar Abdel-Wahab says new therapies that reverse epigenetics — chemical changes within cells that drive gene expression — are being combined with conventional chemotherapy drugs to silence cancer-causing genes and treat some cancers.

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

June 20, 2014 19:57 - 30 minutes - 111 MB Video

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

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

June 20, 2014 19:51 - 29 minutes - 104 MB Video

Runtime 29:12 Oncologist and cancer biologist Richard White explains how his research with genetically modified zebrafish, which reproduce quickly and are optically transparent, has shed light on how melanoma and other cancers spread. read more

2012 Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research

June 20, 2014 18:54 - 341 MB Video

Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig Thompson along with neuropathologist Jason Huse and immunologist Morgan Huse explain how recent developments contribute to better treatments for cancer patients. read more

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

June 20, 2014 18:35 - 34 minutes - 122 MB Video

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 immune response. read more

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

June 20, 2014 18:31 - 31 minutes - 112 MB Video

Runtime 31:32 Neuropathologist Jason Huse discusses personalized medicine and how studying the molecular pathology of patients’ tumors can lead to new therapies. read more

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

June 20, 2014 18:10 - 31 minutes - 110 MB Video

Runtime 31:12 Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig B. Thompson welcomes attendees to the seventh annual Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research lecture for high school students and introduces the speakers. read more

2011 Major Trends in Modern Cancer Research

January 05, 2012 15:26 - 1 hour - 389 MB Video

Runtime 110:45 Memorial Sloan Kettering President and CEO Craig Thompson along with cancer biologist Andrea Ventura, molecular biologist Iestyn Whitehouse, and developmental biologist Jennifer Zallen explain how recent developments contribute to better treatments for cancer patients. read more

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

February 11, 2011 22:00 - 32 minutes - 349 MB Video

Runtime 32:00 Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses new ways to think about cancer and how cancer arises in human beings. read more

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

February 11, 2011 22:00 - 39 minutes - 441 MB Video

Runtime 39:00 Physician-scientist Timothy A. Chan discusses cancer genomics at the forefront of cancer research and how developments have allowed researchers to discover what goes wrong in cancer faster than and more thoroughly. read more

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

February 11, 2011 22:00 - 37 minutes - 211 MB Video

Runtime 37:00 Developmental biologist Mary K. Baylies discusses the mechanisms that drive cells and how genetic approaches in flies have allowed us to find the fundamental genes and mechanisms driving muscle morphogenesis. read more

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

December 30, 2009 21:00 - 40 minutes - 467 MB Video

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

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

December 30, 2009 21:00 - 4 minutes - 47.4 MB Video

Runtime 04:19 Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has served as the President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since January 2000. Watch Dr. Varmus introduce the seminar’s senior investigators. read more

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

December 30, 2009 21:00 - 36 minutes - 308 MB Video

Runtime 36:34 Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lawrence Schwartz, discusses the role of imaging in detection, characterization, staging, and in assessing the response to therapy in cancer treatment. read more

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

November 06, 2008 17:00 - 2 minutes - 32 MB Video

Runtime 02:57 Harold Varmus, co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, has served as the President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since January 2000. Watch Dr. Varmus introduce the seminar’s senior investigators. read more