Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (August 16, 2023) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Nkemdilim Mgbojikwe, MD, as Associate Chief Medical Officer. Mgbojikwe will also serve as an associate professor and a hospitalist in the Department of Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (August 15, 2023)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Christopher G. Cann, MD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Hematology/Oncology with a focus on gastrointestinal cancers.

PHILADELPHIA (August 15, 2023) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to welcome Rebecca M. Shulman, MD, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Shulman recently concluded her residency training in radiation oncology at Fox Chase, serving for one year as chief resident.

PHILADELPHIA (August 11, 2023) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Khadijah A. Mitchell, PhD, MS, as an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program.

PHILADELPHIA (August 10, 2023) — Sanjeevani Arora, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a grant of $752,000 from the Department of Defense to study racial disparities in rectal cancer survival. This topic is of particular importance to the DOD because nearly one-third of active-duty service personnel are members of a racial/ethnic minority group that could be affected by such disparities.

PHILADELPHIA (August 9, 2023) — Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS, an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received an Investigator Initiated Clinical Trial grant from Fox Chase’s Office of Sponsored Research to study the impact of diet and lifestyle factors on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC, the most common form of pancreatic cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2023) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Michael G. Tecce, DO, as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgical Oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2023) — A new study led by Igor Astsaturov, MD, PhD, Co-Director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, demonstrates two key components necessary for a new drug candidate, LP-184, to effectively treat pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The findings were published today in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.