Jon Chernoff pledges to revive his institution’s “Fox Chaseness” after years of setbacks

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Fox Chase Cancer Center used to be a place where Nobel laureates toiled. 

Now, people who love the place—and in oncology, many people do—are hoping that Jonathan Chernoff, Fox Chase’s new director, will restore vitality to the venerable Philadelphia-based cancer center.

“This is doable,” Chernoff said to The Cancer Letter. “We can get through this and actually come out thriving on the other side. I would not have taken the job otherwise, because at my age, this is probably the last big job I’m going to have, and I’m not going out as failure. And I wouldn’t have set myself up for that.”

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