Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (January 27, 2022)—Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH, a Urologic Oncology Fellow at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been awarded the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Conquer Cancer Merit Award. She will present the winning abstract, which characterizes the gut microbiome of bladder cancer patients, at the 2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, which is being held February 17-19.

PHILADELPHIA (January 26, 2022)—Linda Fleisher, PhD, MPH, an associate research professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently appointed co-chair of the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) National Navigation Roundtable (NNRT).

PHILADELPHIA (January 24, 2022)—The two leaders of the Immersion Science Program (ISP) at Fox Chase Cancer Center, which allows students to explore science in a hands-on way while also providing valuable data that can help working researchers, have received the prestigious Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education from the Genetics Society of America (GSA).

PHILADELPHIA (January 20, 2022)—Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have found that disparities in the incidence of head and neck cancer (HNC) are driven by behavioral and environmental risk factors rather than race. They demonstrated this in the first-ever study to compare HNC incidence in Black patients in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa.

PHILADELPHIA (January 20, 2022)—Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, a professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, is a member of a team that was recently awarded a grant as part of an international effort to decode Black genomes and investigate what drives breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer

PHILADELPHIA (January 5, 2022)— Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center recently received a $497,000 multi-year grant from the National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health to develop a way to evaluate novel drug therapies in patients with pancreatic cancer.

PHILADELPHIA (January 4, 2022)—Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Danish Ahmad, MD, as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine for the Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA (December 17, 2021)—Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, chief of the Division of General Surgery and co-director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected a member-at-large for the Society of University Surgeons (SUS). According to the SUS, the member-at-large position is an important part of its nominating committee.