Fox Chase Cancer Center Endowed Chairs

Endowed Chairs Endowed Chairs Home Gloria and Edmund M. Dunn Chair in Thoracic Surgical Oncology Marvin S. Greenberg, MD Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery 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 G. Morris Dorrance Jr. Chair Paul Grotzinger and Wilbur Raab Chair in Surgical Oncology Gerald E. Hanks Chair in Radiation Oncology 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 Jeff Boyd, PhD Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP Eric M. Horwitz, MD John P Hoffman, MD, FACS Beatrice Mintz, PhD Walter J Scott, MD, FACS Joseph R. Testa, PhD Robert G. Uzzo, MD, FACS

Robert C. Young MD Chair
in Cancer Research

This chair was established in 2007 through the generosity of Fox Chase Cancer Center board member Margot Keith and husband Robert Keith, as well as close friends and colleagues, to honor medical oncologist and cancer leader Robert C. Young, MD, an internationally recognized expert in lymphoma and ovarian cancer and Fox Chase’s president from 1988 to 2007.  This chair recognizes and supports an outstanding leader in the field of cancer research who represents the highest standards of excellence.

Jeff Boyd, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer
As Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Jeff Boyd coordinates and charts the future course of research at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Boyd is an international expert in translational research and has particular expertise in the genetics of breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer. He has helped define the role of tumor suppressors and oncogenes in these malignancies, most notably the p53, BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor suppressor genes and their role in the development of breast and ovarian cancer.

Before coming to Fox Chase in 2008, Boyd was director of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute and vice president of oncology and research at the Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. He also served as the professor of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology at the Mercer University School of Medicine. At Mercer University, he served as the assistant dean of research. He also holds the title of Distinguished Cancer Scholar from the state of Georgia.

Prior to his roles in Savannah, Boyd served a variety of leadership roles at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. At MSKCC, he was director of the gynecology and breast research laboratory in the department of surgery as well as the director of diagnostic molecular genetics laboratory within the department of medicine. Before serving at MSKCC, he had faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).