Editing Fox Chase Cancer Center (section)

== Nobel Prize Research ==

Fox Chase's most celebrated scientific achievement was the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Baruch Blumberg for discovering the Hepatitis B virus and developing a vaccine. Blumberg conducted this work at the Institute for Cancer Research, demonstrating the unexpected connections between infectious disease and cancer research. The hepatitis B vaccine has prevented millions of liver cancer cases worldwide.<ref name="foxchase"/>

Earlier fundamental research by scientists including Peter Nowell and David Hungerford discovered the Philadelphia chromosome—named for the city where it was identified—which causes chronic myeloid leukemia. This discovery, made in 1960, established the genetic basis of cancer and led eventually to targeted therapies that have transformed CML from a fatal disease to a manageable chronic condition.<ref name="foxchase"/>