A leading cancer center in Philadelphia appears to be winning a battle with city residents to expand its clinical and research facilities. Fox Chase Cancer Center received the green light from a City Council committee Monday night to go ahead with an $800 million expansion. The Ok has been three years in the making because of objections from people who live in the area. The expansion will take up 19 acres of a park in the city, and residents don't want to see the expansion linkurl:"rip the guts out of the park.";http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/11849442.html Fox Chase Cancer Center linkurl:ranked 9;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/24823/ in __The Scientist's__ Best Places to Work in Academia survey in 2006, and linkurl:ranked 35;http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/11/1/63/1 in 2007. It also linkurl:ranked 6;http://www.the-scientist.com/2006/3/1/54/1/ in 2006 among the best places in North America to do a postdoc. In 2004, scientists at Fox Chase received $57 million in grant dollars from the NIH. According to a...
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