Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA  (January 3, 2020) – Margaret von Mehren, MD,  and Lori Rink, PhD, have been awarded a two-year $270,000 grant to continue their research into PDGFRA-mutated gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST).

PHILADELPHIA (January 2, 2020) – The purpose of the Institutional Research Grant is to provide seed money for the initiation of promising new projects by newer investigators so they can obtain preliminary results that will enable them to compete successfully for national research grants. The Special Interest Award provides support for psychosocial and behavioral research, health policy or health services research, cancer in the poor and medically underserved, and childhood cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (January 2, 2020) – Dr. Ahmed will be joining the Department of Medicine as an associate clinical professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine on January 6, 2020.

Dr. Sherry will be joining the Pain and Palliative Care Program in the Department of Hematology/Oncology as an assistant professor.

PHILADELPHIA (December 20, 2019) – The Fox Chase-Temple University Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program has been recognized by the CIBMTR for performing better than expected for successful transplant procedures. Fox Chase was the only adult treatment center in the tristate area to achieve this distinction.

PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 18, 2019)—Temple University and Thomas Jefferson University today announced that the two institutions have entered into a binding Definitive Agreement for the acquisition by Jefferson of Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC), as well as Temple’s Bone Marrow Transplant program.

PHILADELPHIA (December 17, 2019) – Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, professor and chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, will begin her four-year term in June 2020 and is eager to be representing Fox Chase as she works to encourage collaboration and methods of sharing information in oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (December 16, 2019) – New research from Fox Chase Cancer Center has set the framework for gene therapy as a possible treatment for human cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency, the most common inborn error of metabolism found in children. “We showed that the DNA we treated was expressed in the liver and could reverse the phenotypes we observed in mice with CBS deficiency.”