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.

Jamie Tisch & Other Co-Chairs for the Sloan-Kettering Spring Ball

These women worked together tirelessly to create the 3rd annual Spring Ball for the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Co-chairs for the event included Shelley Carr, Tory Burch, Jamie Tisch, and Dee Dee Ricks, withHeather Leeds, president of The Society of MSKCC, in the center of the picture. The Ball was held on May 18^th, 2010 at The Pierre Hotel.

Spring Ball Co-Chair Jamie Tisch Helping Fight Cancer

The 3^rd Annual Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was held at The Pierre Hotel on May 18, 2010. Co-chairs of this night to remember included Shelley Carr, Tory Burch, Jamie Tisch, and Dee Dee Ricks. The sponsor this year was David Yurman and the honoree was Dr. Charles L. Sawyers, chair of MSKCC’s Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program.

The Spring Ball raised money for a groundbreaking initiative focusing on human genomes.