“STANLEY REIMANN ALWAYS WAS VERY ENCOURAGING TO WOMEN AND TREATED THEM ABSOLUTELY ON A LEVEL WITH THE MEN. THERE WAS NO DISCRIMINATION WHATSOEVER. SALARIES WERE THE SAME.” — Fox Chase biochemist Elizabeth Knight Patterson, Ph.D., in 1985
Institute staff in 1936.
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With a staff now numbering 46, the Institute has outgrown its Lankenau Hospital home. The Society of Friends, trustees of Jeanes Hospital, offers land in Fox Chase. Of the Institute’s 10 laboratory heads, four are women.
Hugh Creech in the 1970s.
1 9 4 5 Hugh J. Creech, Ph.D., begins his 31-year career at the Institute. An organic chemist, Creech would become widely recognized for pioneering work in developing and testing chemotherapy agents, especially nitrogen-mustard compounds and other alkylating agents, which have the ability to interfere with cell metabolism and growth.
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1 9 4 7 On June 5, ground is broken for the Institute for Cancer Research’s new home in Fox Chase. The 50- by 283-foot facility, built with funds from the Pew family, provides space for “about 100 research workers divided into working groups in various fields all headed toward a reasonable solution of the cancer problem,” wrote architect Vincent G. Kling in the ceremony’s program. The building was named for Stanley Reimann in the early 1990s.