Peter Scardino

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
• Chairman of the Departments of Urology and Surgery at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City
• Head of the Prostate Cancer Program
• Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair of Urologic Oncology
• Professor of Urology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• Professor of Urology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.

EDUCATION:
• MD, Duke University School of Medicine
• Residencies: Massachusetts General Hospital; University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine
• Fellowships: National Cancer Institute

MEMBERSHIPS AND EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
Dr Scardino is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and of the American Urological Association.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Nature Clinical Practice Urology and an editorial board member and reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The Urologic Oncologic Research Laboratory is devoted to translational studies of the biology of the four types of genitourinary cancer – prostate, bladder, kidney, and testis. Specifically, our research focuses on cell-cycle and apoptotic regulatory systems; the identification and validation of novel tissue markers of progression; the design and testing of strategies for accurate and efficient sampling of cancer from the prostate; and the development of new models of progression and decision-analysis using medical informatics.

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