Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Edna Cukierman Awarded American Cancer Society’s Wilmott Family Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer

PHILADELPHIA (November 13, 2023) — Edna “Eti” Cukierman, PhD, Co-Director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute and Co-Leader of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently awarded the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Wilmott Family Professorship in Pancreatic Cancer.
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Lewis Katz School of Medicine/Fox Chase Cancer Center and Hunter College Receive $13.3 Million Renewal of Grant to Address Cancer Health Disparities

PHILADELPHIA (November 2, 2023) — Lewis Katz School of Medicine/Fox Chase Cancer Center and Hunter College of the City University of New York have received a five-year, $13.3 million competitive grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to address cancer health disparities.
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Survey From Fox Chase and Other Institutions Finds Majority of Practitioners in Hereditary Gastroenterology Support Use of Genetic Testing to Determine Colorectal Cancer Risk, Treatment

PHILADELPHIA (October 30, 2023) — A majority of clinicians with expertise in hereditary gastroenterology support implementing genetic screening known as universal germline testing for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer, according to the results of a clinical practice survey conducted by Sanjeevani Arora, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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Researcher at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Fox Chase Cancer Center Awarded $100,000 Grant From Mary Kay Ash Foundation for Breast Cancer Work

PHILADELPHIA (October 26, 2023) — Lucia Borriello, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and a member of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been awarded a $100,000 Mary Kay Ash Foundation Innovative/Translational Cancer Research Grant.
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