Notable Current and Former Fox Chase Cancer Center Researchers
- Helen M. Berman, director of the Protein Data Bank
- Baruch Blumberg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for discovery of Hepatitis B and the Hepatitis B vaccine
- Jenny Pickworth Glusker, noted crystallographer
- V. Craig Jordan, "Father of Tamoxifen"
- Alfred G. Knudson, architect of the "two-hit hypothesis" (Knudson hypothesis) about the role of accumulated genetic errors in cancer development, awarded the Kyoto Prize in 2004 and the Albert Lasker Award in 1998
- Irving Millman (d. 17 April 2012), who helped Baruch Blumberg develop the first hepatitis B vaccine
- Beatrice Mintz, pioneering female cancer researcher, noted for many embryonic and genetic advances, and member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Arthur Lindo Patterson, who developed the Patterson function, a key step in determining the structures of molecules using X-ray crystallography
- Robert P. Perry, who studied RNA processing in cellular expression of proteins
- Irwin Rose, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
- Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University since 2001
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