Jose Russo
Jose Russo is a senior member and professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center, director of both the Irma H Russo, MD- Breast Cancer Research Laboratory and the Environment Research Center at FCCC-Temple Health. He is also a professor of biochemistry at the Temple Medical School in Philadelphia and an adjunct professor in pathology and cell biology at Thomas Jefferson College of Medicine. Education Russo was born in Rivadavia, Argentina, a small town east of the city of Mendoza, in 1942. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1959 from Agustin Alvarez National College, Mendoza, Argentina. In the year 1967, he received his physician and surgeon degree from the School Medicine, National University of Cuyo. He received four years post-doctoral fellowship from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) where he completed his formation as a physician-scientist that started in 1962 in the Experimental Pathology Department. After finishing his training in research in Argentina he obtained a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1971 and two years later he was hired as a research scientist at the Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, Michigan. Research and career In 1982, he was board-certified by the American Board of Pathology, and in the same year