A $1.5 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania has established the Barbara and Edward Netter Associate Professorship in Cancer Gene Therapy at the Abramson Cancer Center. Bruce Levine, PhD, a faculty member in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine and the director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility, has been appointed to the Barbara and Edward Netter Associate Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy.

The Penn alumni Barbara and Edward Netter are founders of the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, a foundation dedicated to promote gene therapy research to treat cancer. The appointment and establishment of the Netter Associate Professorship will be celebrated in January 2014.

Link to Office of Communications news announcement.