Memorial Sloan Kettering President Craig Thompson studies molecular signaling pathways that regulate nutrient uptake and the role these pathways play in the regulation of cell growth and survival. His appointment concludes a search that began in January 2010. Previously, Dr. Thompson was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.

He succeeds Harold Varmus, now Director of the National Cancer Institute. He succeeds Harold Varmus, MD, who left Memorial Sloan Kettering in July 2010 and is now director of the National Cancer Institute. On August 10, 2010, nationally known cancer researcher and clinician Craig B. Thompson was named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center effective November 2, 2010. Craig B. Thompson, MD, became President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — the world’s oldest and largest private institution devoted to cancer prevention, treatment, research, and education — in November 2010. His appointment concludes a search that began in January 2010. Craig B. Thompson, MD, has been named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center effective November 2, 2010.