Awards and Honors

Fox Chase investigators have received numerous awards and honors, including Nobel Prizes in medicine and chemistry; the Kyoto Prize; a Lasker Clinical Research Award; memberships in the national Academy of Sciences; General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Prizes; American Cancer Society Medals of Honor; and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Nobel Prize Recipients

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  Irwin Rose, PhD, receiving his Nobel in 2004

  2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Irwin Rose, PhD

  "For the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
  Nobel Committee
  Avram Hershko, MD, PhD, Aaron Ciechanover, PhD (both from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel), and retired Fox Chase scientist Irwin A. "Ernie" Rose, PhD, won the 2004 Prize for a series of epoch-making biochemical studies on the breakdown of proteins within cells. During a series of sabbaticals that began in the late 1970s, Hershko and Ciechanover accomplished much of this work as visiting scientists alongside Rose in his laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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  Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, PhD

  1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology
  or Medicine
  Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, PhD

  "For the discovery concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
  Nobel Committee
  Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, PhD, a Fox Chase Cancer Center Distinguished Scientist and senior advisor to the Center's president, won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his 1967 discovery of the hepatitis B virus. This led to the development of the first hepatitis B vaccine at Fox Chase.
  
  Fox Chase Cancer Center honored the lifetime achievement of Dr. Blumberg on the occasion of his 80th birthday with a special scientific symposium Thursday, June 16, 2005, examining his Nobel Prize-winning research and his more recent work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as the first director of the Astrobiology Institute.
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Fox Chase Awarded Magnet Status for Excellence in Nursing

In September 2000, the Hospital of Fox Chase Cancer Center became the nation's first comprehensive cancer center and Pennsylvania's first hospital to receive Magnet status for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, which renewed this honor everytime it's come up for renewal, in 2004 and again in 2009.

Institutions applying for Magnet status must pass a rigorous review, designed to demonstrate superior nursing and excellence in patient care. Magnet status is valid for 4 years, after which the recipient must reapply. Fox Chase Cancer Center was the 19th institution in the country to receive the Magnet Nursing Services Recognition Award and the third to be redesignated. The Center is also the first in Pennsylvania and the first acute specialty hospital in the country to receive Magnet status.

Magnet institutions are recognized nationally for their commitment to quality nursing care. "The overall goal of the program is to identify excellence in nursing and to recognize institutions that act as a 'magnet' by creating a work environment that recognizes and rewards professional nursing," says Joanne Hambleton, Vice-President, Nursing and Patient Services at Fox Chase.

The Magnet Nursing Recognition Program, established in 1993, is the American Nurses Association's highest honor. Thanks to superb nursing specialists, Fox Chase Cancer Center can offer each patient the highest quality care.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Day-Care Receives National NAEYC Accreditation

In November 2007, Creative Beginnings, the child-development program for children of Fox Chase Cancer Center employees, became one of the first early-childhood programs to earn accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) under the revised standards. NAEYC is the nation's leading organization of early childhood professionals. More

Fox Chase Cancer Center is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) of the American College of Surgeons

Fox Chase Cancer Center is accredited by the
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer