Originally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2017   By Paige Allen Cancer can take people through a series of waiting rooms, infusion rooms, operating rooms, and hospital rooms. When it’s over, another problem can be lurking in a different room: t...

Fox Chase Scientists Celebrate 25 Years of AKT-Related Research By Bryan Bechtel October 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of a landmark study that originated in a laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The study, called “A Retroviral Oncogene, AKT, Enc...

Originally published in Forward, Fall/Winter 2015 Precision, compassion, patience, determination, and dedication — these are key traits of any good surgeon. Luckily for his patients at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Jeffrey Farma possesses all of these traits....

The Immersion Science program introduces high school students to cancer research with hands-on learning A Supplement to Forward Spring/Summer 2015 by Liz Pacheco Danielle Talbot’s life changed one day in chemistry class. “My teacher hands me this...

Liz PachecoOriginally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2015Probe any successful institution’s history, and you will naturally find remarkable individuals. Rarer is finding remarkable leadership that comes from an entire family. Such was the case with the...

Originally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2015   In the 1960s, says clinical geneticist Mary Daly, going to medical school seemed out of reach. “The thinking was that women couldn’t have both families and careers in research or medicine....