Frank J. Rauscher III was an American researcher at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia.
[1][2][3] Rauscher is also a professor of genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
[4] His research focuses on mechanisms responsible for gene silencing during development and homeostasis and disruptions associated with the initiation of tumors.
[5] Rauscher's research found that if wt1 is mutated, cells of the kidney might continue to grow out of control.
[7] He is the son of Frank J. Rauscher, Jr., former director of the National Cancer Institute.