Katie Derickson Originally published in Forward Fall/Winter 2014   In studying protein death, Fox Chase researchers breathed new life into cancer drugs When Israeli biochemist Avram Hershko and his then-graduate student Aaron Ciechanover arri...

By Maddy Weber Originally published in Forward, Winter 2012   How one man saved a research institute Stanley Reimann was just one man, but in September 1930 he faced the daunting task of sustaining a fledgling research institute dedicated to unr...

Originally published in Forward, Spring 2012During her more than 50-year career at Fox Chase, geneticist Beatrice Mintz has helped to unravel the origins of cancer by asking what she calls “big questions.” These questions have led her to make great strides ...

Maddy WeberOriginally published in Forward, Fall 2012Becoming ‘comprehensive’ meant melding of culturesJust 40 years ago, the Fox Chase Cancer Center of today—a place known for providing top-level patient care and conducting cutting-edge research—was merely...

Greg Lester Originally published in Forward, Spring 2009 Fox Chase’s Baruch S. Blumberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1976 for his work in discovering the hepatitis B virus, the leading cause of liver cancer. He subsequently invented...

Originally published in Forward, Fall 2012   Immunologist Helped Save Millions of Lives Retired Fox Chase researcher Irving Millman, who played an instrumental role in the development of the hepatitis B vaccine and screening test, died in April at ...