Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Office of Industrial Affairs (OIA) is responsible for managing the inventions of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigators (e.g., evaluating, protecting, marketing, licensing), for negotiating agreements for sponsored research, clinical trials, material transfer, etc., and for reviewing the consulting agreements of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center staff.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center researchers pursue basic and clinical research to advance the ability to prevent, control, and cure cancer. Ongoing research at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, the basic research arm of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is yielding new insights into the biology of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center scientists are engaged in research in such diverse areas as cell signaling, developmental biology, tumor immunology, immunotherapy, transplantation biology, human cancer genetics, drug development, and clinical therapeutics.