Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Treatment and research hospital in New York City
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| 2023 | MSK received a $400 million donation from David Geffen and Kenneth C. Griffin. |
| 2022 | Selwyn M. Vickers is appointed as president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, continuing to lead the organization from 2022 onwards. |
| August 2022 | Memorial Sloan Kettering launched its India facility in Chennai, providing telemedicine services in collaboration with iCiliniq to offer cancer specialist second opinions. |
| June 2022 | A small trial found that tumors vanished in all 14 patients diagnosed with early stage rectal cancer who completed the study. |
| April 2022 | MSK announced a $50 million donation from The Starr Foundation to expand funding for basic cancer research and discovery science. |
| January 2020 | The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care opened at 530 East 74th Street, a 750,000 sq ft facility designed by Perkins Eastman in collaboration with Ennead Architects and ICRAVE. |
| 2019 | Memorial Sloan Kettering partnered with Montefiore Health and Mount Sinai Health System to open the New York Proton Center, the first proton therapy center in New York state. |
| November 2018 | The FDA approved MSK-IMPACT, the first academic or commercial tumor identification test. José Baselga resigned in September due to undisclosed financial conflicts of interest. |
| 2017 | The FDA approved an MSK-developed immunotherapy, CAR-T, for certain applications in leukemia and lymphoma. |
| 2015 | MSK opened the Josie Robertson Surgery Center for outpatient surgeries. |
| 2013 | Joan Massagué was appointed as the director of SKI, the research arm of MSK. |
| 2012 | MSK announced a collaboration with IBM's Watson to develop tools for tailoring diagnostic and treatment recommendations. José Baselga was appointed as physician-in-chief. |
| October 2012 | The Sillerman Center for Rehabilitation was opened, relocating rehabilitation services closer to the Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion. |
| 2010 | Craig B. Thompson was appointed as MSK's president and CEO. |
| June 2010 | The Center for Image-Guided Intervention was opened in the Memorial Hospital building to oversee image guiding activities across Memorial Sloan Kettering. |
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