Attending
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Charlotte Ariyan is physician-scientist and Carol Bassock Lowenstein Chair of Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who treats patients with cancer. The laboratory research has focused on strategies to augment the immune system to fight cancer, specifically by novel combinations of local therapies (chemotherapies and viruses) with checkpoint blockade engaging in cutting-edge laboratory research with the goal of rapid translation to clinical application. She has also focused on and received grant funding to understand rare melanoma subtypes of melanoma such as acral melanoma, and has built a large tumor bank of rare melanoma subtypes.
Dr Ariyan is the melanoma section editor for the Annals of Surgical Oncology, Chair of the melanoma/sarcoma committee for the complex surgical oncology certifying exam. She is an active member of the international neoadjuvant melanoma consortium and the Society for Immunotherapy in Cancer (SITC) melanoma guidelines committee.
At MSK Dr Ariyan co-leads the melanoma DMT. She is the PI of the R25 medical student program at MSK, which brings medical students to MSK for a summer experience, and co-leads the Gerstner Scholars Program for early career scientists.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
10:52am – 11:07am ET
Thursday, March 21, 2024
7:00pm – 9:00pm ET