Carlo M. Croce, M.D.

Carlo M. Croce, M.D., was an internationally prominent scientist at Wistar from 1970 to 1988, rising from associate scientist to professor and associate director of the Institute. Today, Croce is director of the Human Cancer Genetics Program at Ohio State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Croce arrived at The Wistar Institute in 1970, just ten years after researchers established cancer’s genetic basis, and began developing the modern molecular biology technology needed to elucidate the causes of cancer. By the late 1970s, he was using somatic cell hybrids to identify and map important cancer-related genes like BCL2, MYC, ALL1, TCL1, LATS1 and FHIT, among others. Croce’s current work focuses on translating cancer genetics research into therapies that would treat or prevent cancer.

In 1988, he became the director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research at Temple University School of Medicine. He joined Thomas Jefferson University in 1991 as director of the Kimmel Cancer Center, a position he held until moving to Ohio State University in 2004. Croce has published more than 680 research papers, and he is a member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences.