Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA, PA (September 6, 2013)—Paul F. Engstrom, MD, Acting Chairman of Medical Oncology and Senior Vice President of Extramural Research Programs at Fox Chase Cancer Center, is being honored by the Association of Community Cancer Centers with their Annual Clinical Care Achievement Award. Engstrom will receive the award at the organization’s 30th National Oncology Conference in Boston on October 4, 2013.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (September 6, 2013)—Fox Chase Cancer Center will be hosting a Cancer Conversations LIVE event featuring Danielle Ofri, MD—essayist, editor, and practicing physician in New York City—on Wednesday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fox Chase Auditorium (Center Building, 333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia). At the event, Danielle will discuss her book What Doctors Feel, which addresses the emotional side of medical practice.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 20, 2013)—Fox Chase Cancer Center announced today the signing of a formal agreement with Grand View Hospital for the two organizations to enter into a revitalized partnership. The new partnership will offer cancer patients in Upper Bucks and Northeastern Montgomery Counties the best of both worlds—access to nationally recognized specialty cancer care with clinical trials right in their own backyard.  

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 9, 2013)—The Scientist’s Best Places to Work in Academia 2013 survey, which ranks the top 20 institutions to work for when it comes to conducting academic research, lists Fox Chase Cancer Center among the best. Fox Chase is ranked 7th—with high marks for job satisfaction, as well as tenure and promotion.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 9, 2013)—James Duncan, PhD, has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Cancer Biology Program as an Assistant Professor. He recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina. His current work defines novel mechanisms for the rapid reprogramming of the kinome to targeted kinase inhibitors in preclinical models of triple negative breast cancer.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 9, 2013)—Vasily Studitsky, PhD, has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as a Professor in the Cancer Epigenetics Program. He comes to Fox Chase from Wayne State University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he was a full Professor. Dr.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 29, 2013)—Richard I. Fisher, MD, a leading cancer center administrator and nationally recognized hematology/oncology expert who joined Temple Health on March 1, 2013, has been appointed President and CEO of Fox Chase Cancer Center.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 25, 2013)—Daniel M. Geynisman, MD, has joined Fox Chase’s department of medical oncology after completing a hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he served as chief fellow in his final year. While there, he completed an additional fellowship at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. He specializes in treating patients with genitourinary cancers, including prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, penile, and adrenal cancers.