essential for ensuring the accuracy of DNA replication during the cell cycle in human cells and in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe), which is highly significant in understanding cancer. Since 2002, Kelly has been the director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, where he has expanded or re-invigorated some of its laboratory research programs. Kelly also led the establishment of the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, which provides a novel curriculum in basic and translational cancer biology leading to the Ph.D. degree. Honors Member, Institute of Medicine Member, National Academy of Sciences Member, American Philosophical Society Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology Member, Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars Awards Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University, 2010 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 2004 References External links Geoffrey Beene Docs Retrieved on March 5, 2013 Publications on Pubmed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Lab page New York Genome Center Launches Innovation Center August 1, 2012 Interview with Thomas Kelly Living people 21st-century American biologists Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the National Academy of Medicine Cancer researchers Members of the American Philosophical Society 1941 births