| November | Dr. Kepal N. Patel joins the department as an Assistant Professor. He comes to Stony Brook from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he completed his fellowship training in head and neck oncologic surgery. |
| September | Please welcome Dr. Wei-Xing Zong from Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He joins us as an Assistant Professor. |
| October | Dr. Nancy Reich is a co-recipient of the 2005 International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research Award with Menachem Rubinstein and Daniela Novick. |
| January | Dr. Nicholas Carpino joins the Department as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Carpino trained as a postdoctoral fellow at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the laboratory of Dr. James Ihle. The focus of Dr. Carpino's research is the signaling pathway that regulates T cell activation. |
