Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (July 23, 2024) — A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications by researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the Fox Chase Cancer Center sheds light on how protein phosphatases target proteins and help regulate cell cycle progression, work that could help lay the groundwork for potential new targets for cancer therapies.

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2024) — Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS, an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, Program Director of the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship, and Co-Director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, has been promoted to Division Chief of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2024)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michelle Pedersen, DO, as a hospitalist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2024) — Richard Bleicher, MD, FACS, Director of the Breast Oncology Fellowship program and Clinical Director of the Breast Service Line at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named the 2023-2024 University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Breast Surgical Oncology Fellowship’s Annual Distinguished Commencement Visiting Professor. Bleicher was unanimously elected as this year’s distinguished professor by the MD Anderson fellows.

PHILADELPHIA (July 18, 2024) — Yu “Sunny” Liu, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health to study how misfolded human genome can cause disease.

PHILADELPHIA (July 17, 2024) — Lauren Farnon, MSHS, disease site research manager for the Thoracic Cancer Program and the Head and Neck Cancer Program research teams, has been selected as a member of the ECOG-ACRIN Clinical Research Associates Core Committee.

PHILADELPHIA (July 16, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned national rankings of 33 in cancer and 19 in urology among the country’s top 50 hospitals in the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

PHILADELPHIA (July 16, 2024) — The African American/Black community is at increased risk for morbidity and mortality from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, but unfortunately, when it comes to diagnosis and treatment, smoking stigma is believed to be a primary barrier to healthcare for this community.