MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERAlan Hall, the Cell Biology program chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, died this week (May 3). He was 62.
Hall was a leader in cytoskeleton research, noted for discovering the role of Rho GTPases in assembling the cellular structures.
“This work has contributed greatly to our understanding of how tumor cells become metastatic and spread throughout the body,” Craig Thompson, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Joan Massagué, director of the Sloan Kettering Institute, wrote in an e-mail to The Scientist. “[Hall] was an extraordinary scientist and remarkable human being who will be sorely missed by all his colleagues.”
Hall’s recent work focused on cell polarity and migration. He moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2004 after a decade leading a lab at University College London and, prior to that, a 12-year stint at the Institute for Cancer Research in London. Hall trained as ...
