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Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Dr. Mary Daly Receives Inaugural Impact Award From Basser Center for BRCA

May 31st 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Mary Daly, MD, PhD, FACP was recently recognized as the first recipient of the BRCA Impact Award from Penn Medicine’s Basser Center for BRCA.

Fox Chase Physician Wins Best Poster Award at Breast Cancer Meeting for Research on Surgery to Remove Lymph Nodes

May 26th 2023

Austin D. Williams, MD, MSEd, of Fox Chase Cancer Center, received the Best Poster Award at the recent 24th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.

Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s Dr. Matthew Lee Discusses Experience With New Robotic Laparoscopic Procedure at 2023 AUA Annual Meeting

May 12th 2023

Matthew Lee, MD, MBA, discusses his use of a new robotic laparoscopic procedure to treat a complication caused by cancer radiation therapy at the 2023 American Urological Association Annual Meeting.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Dr. Abigail T. Berman

May 10th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Abigail T. Berman, MD, MSCE, as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Temple Health Launches New Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute

May 4th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are pleased to announce the new Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute, a groundbreaking initiative that will concentrate on both benign and oncologic urology.

Researcher at Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Fox Chase Wins $800,000 Grant for Work on Childhood Cancers

May 1st 2023

Christian Hurtz, PhD, an assistant professor at the Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, has been awarded a four-year $800,000 A-Award by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Dr. Maryam Ijaz Khan

April 27th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Maryam Ijaz Khan, MD, as an associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology.

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Edna ‘Eti’ Cukierman Appointed Chair-Elect of the American Association for Cancer Research’s Tumor Microenvironment Working Group

April 25th 2023

Edna “Eti” Cukierman, PhD, was been appointed chair-elect of the AACR Tumor Microenvironment Working Group at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Clinical Director Wins Oncology Nursing Society’s Excellence in Cancer Nursing Management Award

April 21st 2023

Erin Longstreth-Papsun, RN, MSN, OCN, NEA-BC, clinical director of Ambulatory Satellite Clinics and Radiation Oncology Nursing at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded the Excellence in Cancer Nursing Management Award by the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS).

Fox Chase Cancer Center is Holding a ‘Be The Match’ Virtual Event

April 12th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are kicking off National Donate Life Month with a Be The Match virtual event.

Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health Welcome Dr Claire L. Streibert

March 30th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple Health are pleased to announce the hiring of Claire L. Streibert, MD, as site chief of breast imaging.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Researchers Open Clinical Trial That Could Help Men Avoid Surgery to Remove Prostate

March 15th 2023

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have begun recruiting for a clinical trial called PRESERVE that will evaluate the safety and efficacy of the NanoKnife System to treat patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

Fox Chase Researchers Receive $1 Million Grant to Develop Platform That Could Assist in Development of New Drugs

March 3rd 2023

John Karanicolas, PhD, co-leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a platform that could assist in the development of new drugs.

Fox Chase’s Cihangir Duy Receives an American Society of Hematology 2023 Scholar Award

February 17th 2023

Cihangir Duy, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer research program and a member of the Cancer Epigenetics Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been awarded an American Society of Hematology 2023 Junior Faculty Scholar Award in basic/translational research.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Researchers Receive Grant to Address Diversity in Early Development Clinical Trials

February 14th 2023

Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center were recently awarded a $550,000 grant from Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) to fund a new project, “Accelerating and Diversifying Access to Clinical Trials.”

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcome Lucia Borriello

January 19th 2023

The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Fox Chase Cancer Center are pleased to announce the hiring of Lucia Borriello, PhD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology at Temple.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Dr. Lindsey B. Taylor

January 13th 2023

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Lindsey B. Taylor, MD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology and the Breast Cancer and Hematology Programs.

Fox Chase Cancer Center President and CEO Dr. Robert Uzzo Presents Rhoads Oration for Philadelphia Academy of Surgery

January 6th 2023

Joining a list of over 100 previous orators, Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS, president and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center, delivered the Rhoads Oration for the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery this month at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Fox Chase Graduate Student Billy Truong Recognized With ASH Abstract Achievement Award

December 19th 2022

Billy Truong, a doctoral candidate at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was awarded the American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award for a poster that he presented at the 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

Fox Chase Researcher Receives American Cancer Society Grant to Study Synthetic Targets for Tumor Drug Delivery

December 15th 2022

Swayam Prabha, MBA, PhD was recently awarded a $792,000 American Cancer Society research scholar grant to investigate new methods for treating lung cancer.