James Sterngold

James Sterngold is a Senior Writer for the Wall Street

Journal, where he reports on finance and business. Jim

previously spent eighteen years at the New York Times, as

a domestic reporter and foreign correspondent, based in Asia.

He shared in a Pulitzer Prize, awarded to the Times staff

for its coverage of 9/11. He has also written for Fortune,

Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, and SmartMoney

magazines. Jim won the Foreign Press Association's

award for Best Magazine Financial Article of 2010 and

the Magazine Personal Service Award from the Deadline

Club in 2012. He is also the author of the book "Burning

Down the House: How Greed, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge

Destroyed E. F. Hutton."

Paul A. Marks, MD, led the Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Cancer Center as President and Chief Executive Officer

for nineteen years, beginning in 1980. Prior to his tenure

at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Dr. Marks was professor

of human genetics and Frode Jensen Professor of

Medicine (1968-1980), Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

(1970-1973), and Vice President for Health Sciences and

Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (1973-

1980) at Columbia University. Dr. Marks is a member

of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute

of Medicine, is a fellow at the American Academy of

Arts and Sciences, and for more than 40 years has advised the government on

science and health research policy. He has published

more than 400 scientific articles and received the National

Medal of Science from President George H.W.

Bush in 1991. Memorial Sloan-Kettering has established

the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, given to up to three young leaders in cancer research to encourage a new generation of investigators.