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September 28, 2016

Fox Chase Awarded Prestigious Training Grant for 40th Year in a Row

 The Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award will provide funding for 10 postdoctoral positions in various labs at Fox Chase for five years. Trainees are funded by the grant for a maximum of two years.Working in each of the Ce...

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September 14, 2016

Fox Chase Announces the Promotion of Namrata (Neena) Vijayvergia, MD, to Medical Director, Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center Partners

 Dr. Vijayvergia joins Partners surgical oncology medical director John M. Daly, MD, and Partners radiation oncology medical director Mark L. Sobczak, MD, in a key leadership role that focuses on the continued enhancement of the Partners Program."We're...

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Fox Chase Announces the Promotion of Namrata (Neena) Vijayvergia, MD, to Medical Director, Medical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center Partners

September 13, 2016

I Rally: Tiffiney Hartman

To me, cancer research is not just a career or something I find incredibly interesting. It’s personal. On my dad’s side, my aunt died five years ago from recurrent breast cancer, and a year later, my uncle, her husband, died from colorectal cancer. On my...

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I Rally: Tiffiney Hartman

September 13, 2016

I Rally: Shannon Lynch

 Until I was eight, my family and I lived in a New Jersey neighborhood for working families who received government interest rate subsidies to buy their homes. We then moved to a twin home in the Fox Chase/Burholme section of Philadelphia. I grew up in...

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September 1, 2016

Trainee Spotlight: Vivek Modi, PhD

  Vivek Modi, PhD Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Roland Dunbrack’s lab Fox Chase Cancer Center [email protected]     Biography I still remember reading The Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, one of the first books I got ...

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Trainee Spotlight: Vivek Modi, PhD

August 31, 2016

Alexander Kutikov, MD, FACS, Featured as Guest Writer for Philly.com

 In April 2016, Alexander Kutikov, MD, FACS, a surgical oncologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was asked to be a guest writer for the health section of Philly.com. As a surgical specialist who treats tumors of the urinary tract, among others,...

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