Dr. Edna Cukierman, associate professor and co-director of the new Marvin and Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, spoke with us about plans for this new world class research institute. How did you become interes...

Updated January 16, 2020 Now that summer is over you can put away your bathing suit, floppy hat and sunscreen—right? Not so fast with the sunscreen. The sun hasn’t packed its bags and left town. Even on gray days when the sun is hiding behind clouds, ...

  Tatiana Pazina Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Kerry Campbell lab [email protected]     Biography I was born in Cheboksary, a small city in Russia, and later moved to St. Petersburg where larger universities and more career oppor...

 Cancer researchers can’t stop talking about CRISPR.CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene editing technique that’s used to remove and insert genetic material from DNA. Scientists paired a navigati...

Updated: April 30, 2021Nearly every woman knows someone who’s had breast cancer—whether a loved one or a friend. More than 300,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and more than 40,000 will die of it.Without a doubt, the ...

Updated: February 17, 2020Many people are apprehensive before their first chemotherapy appointment. Preconceived notions and misinformation can add to the stress. “I think it is important to emphasize that the effects of treatments vary enormously depending...