Fox Chase Cancer Center News

Jefferson to pursue purchase of Fox Chase Cancer Center

Two of Philadelphia’s leading academic and healthcare organizations have signed an agreement that creates an exclusive 90-day window within which to consider and negotiate the acquisition and conduct due diligence by Jefferson of the Fox Chase Cancer Center.

The move opens the door to bring together significant complementary expertise in cancer treatment and breakthrough research to improve patient outcomes across the greater Philadelphia region and beyond.

PHILADELPHIA (January 8, 2019) — Using next-generation sequencing (NGS) based RNA-sequencing, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center identified two new members of MiT family translocation renal cell carcinoma, NEAT1-TFE3 and KAT6A-TFE3, further emphasizing the genetic complexity of this group of renal tumors.

PHILADELPHIA (January 8, 2019) — Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers are exploring the structural mechanisms that allows pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) to spread, and a new paper suggests that altering underlying substrates could harness the body’s ability to restrict the disease’s progress.

The beginning of the New Year is a perfect time to reflect on your health and to learn ways you can reduce your risk for cancer. 

With this grant, the Sykes lab will seek to uncover molecular targets that can serve as a basis for developing novel acute myeloid leukemia (AML) therapies.

The American Cancer Society’s newly formed Pennsylvania/New Jersey Pay-If Research Council has funded Jaye Gardiner, PhD, to  continue her efforts to understand the signaling from cell-cell interactions in the pancreatic tumor microenvironment.

PHILADELPHIA (December 11, 2018) — Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer and Stanley P. Reimann Chair in Oncology Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation to support his research on RAC1 mutant melanoma. 

Dr. Denise Connolly has led the way in changing how ovarian cancer is understood. Her lab pioneered the first transgenic mouse model that develops spontaneous ovarian carcinomas, making it easier for scientists everywhere to study ovarian cancers.