Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (September 9, 2024) — Registration for Paws for the Cause 2024, Fox Chase Cancer Center’s ever-popular dog walk fundraiser, is now open. The event, now in its 25th year, will be held Sunday September 15, 2024, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Reimann parking lot.

PHILADELPHIA (September 9, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Center for Immunology will host its 14th Annual Scientific Symposium on Friday, October 18, 2024. The event will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry being awarded for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. Much of that work was done at Fox Chase.

Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Alycia So, MD, as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery. The addition of So to the department now expands the rapidly growing Division of Breast Surgery to six full-time breast surgeons, adding to its continued growth across the health system.

PHILADELPHIA (September 6, 2024) — In a study published today in the prestigious journal Cell, researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center showed changes that occur with age in male skin fibroblasts contributed to an increase in the spread of melanoma cells and made cancer cells resistant to targeted therapy.

PHILADELPHIA (August 22, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Leah Grandi Holben, MD, as an Assistant Professor in the General Hematology/Oncology Program. She will see patients at Fox Chase Cancer Center at Chestnut Hill Hospital.

PHILADELPHIA (August 21, 2024) — Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Eric Goodlev, MD, as an Associate Professor in the Supportive Oncology and Palliative Care Program.

PHILADELPHIA (August 14, 2024) — Sanjay S. Reddy, MD, FACS, Division Chief of Surgical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, recently received the center’s 2024 Medical Staff Executive Committee Faculty Citizenship Award.

PHILADELPHIA (August 13, 2024) — Lucia Borriello, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and a member of the Cancer Signaling and Microenvironment Research Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has received a $150,000 grant from the Concern Foundation. Borriello will lead a two-year project, “Role of Chemotherapy in Promoting Awakening of Dormant Tumor Cells and Metastatic Relapse,” that will be supported by the Conquer Cancer Now grant.