Fox Chase Cancer Center Endowed Chairs

Endowed Chairs Endowed Chairs Home G. Morris Dorrance Jr. Chair in Medical Oncology Gloria and Edmund M. Dunn Chair in Thoracic Surgical Oncology Marvin S. Greenberg, MD Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Gerald E. Hanks Chair in Radiation Oncology G. Willing "Wing" Pepper Chair in Cancer Research Stanley P. Reimann Chair in Oncology Research Jack Schulz Chair in Basic Science Timothy R. Talbot Jr. Chair in Cancer Research Carol and Kenneth Weg Chair in Human Genetics Robert C. Young MD Chair in Cancer Research Paul Grotzinger and Wilbur Raab Chair in Surgical Oncology Samuel M.V. Hamilton Chair in Prevention Alfred G. Knudson Jr. Chair in Basic Science Donald E. and Shirley C. Morel, Stanley and Stella Bayster Chair in Molecular Imaging Audrey Weg Schaus and Geoffrey Alan Weg Chair in Medical Science H.O. West and J.R. Wike Chair in Cancer Research William Wikoff Smith Chair in Cancer Research Chairholders J. Robert Beck, MD Jeff Boyd, PhD Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP Paul F. Engstrom, MD Eric M. Horwitz, MD John P. Hoffman, MD, FACS Beatrice Mintz, PhD Walter J. Scott, MD, FACS Anna M. Skalka, PhD Joseph R. Testa, PhD Robert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc

G. Willing "Wing" Pepper Chair
in Cancer Research

Created in 1999 by Fox Chase Cancer Center Board Member Jane Pepper and friends and colleagues, this chair honors G. Willing "Wing" Pepper (1909-2001), former president of Scott Paper Company, a noted Philadelphia philanthropist, and Fox Chase board member from 1973 to 1987.  The chair was established to acknowledge and support an outstanding leader in the field of cancer research who represents the highest standards of excellence.

Robert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS

Chair, Department of Surgery
Dr. Robert Uzzo is a tenured member of the staff, and a Co-Leader in the Keystone Program for Personalized Kidney Cancer Therapy.  His clinical interests focus on treatment for kidney, prostate, testicular, and bladder cancers and procedures for urinary diversion. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, he is skilled in minimally invasive procedures, including pure laparoscopic and robotic surgery for kidney, prostate, and bladder cancers. He is also the national urology principle investigator for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group trial to evaluate targeted therapies for kidney cancers, and is the co-chair of the genitourinary early management committee at E.C.O.G.

Uzzo's honors include the American Association of Cancer Research’s 1999 Young Investigator Award. At the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he was a fellow in urologic oncology and an American Foundation for Urologic Diseases scholar.

Dr. Uzzo is a member of the American Urologic Association, a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Association of Cancer Research, the Society for Basic Urological Research and the Society of Urological Oncology. He has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on topics in urologic oncology and has published more than 200 chapters, manuscripts, and abstracts on various aspects of genitourinary malignancies.

In addition to his clinical activities, he has an active basic science lab investigating signaling mechanisms in prostate cancer. Dr. Uzzo has recently published a patient oriented book entitled, "100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Cancer."