Frank J. Rauscher III, Ph.D. was a researcher at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Rauscher is also a professor of genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He graduated from Moravian College in 1979. His research focuses on mechanisms responsible for gene silencing during development and homeostasis and disruptions associated with the initiation of tumors. Rauscher is the former editor-in-chief of the journal Cancer Research. He is the son of Frank J. Rauscher, Jr., former director of the National Cancer Institute.