Monday, November 8, 2010

The Society's Third Spring Ball

The Third Annual Spring Ball of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was held this past May in New York, at the Pierre Hotel. This year’s co-chairmen were Tory Burch, Shelley Carr, Dee Dee Ricks, and Jamie Tisch, and David Yurman sponsored. Mary J Blige, the Grammy Award Winner, performed beautifully for the guests, who later loosened up with DJ Cassidy.

The ball honored Charles L. Sawyers, M.D., winner or the Laskar Award and chairman of MSKCC’s Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, an organization working tirelessly to discover new cures for cancer. In fact, HOPP’s scientists have created two new drugs which are showing promising results- one for the treatment of prostate cancer, and one for melanoma.

The ball collected more than 1.4 million dollars, 260,000 of which will be supporting Dr. Sawyers and his research.