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Fox Chase researchers to use $497K NCI grant to develop platform for testing pancreatic cancer drug therapies

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Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have received a $497,000 multi-year grant from NCI to develop a way to evaluate novel drug therapies in patients with pancreatic cancer.

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