Leukemia Research Scientist Awarded Medal of Freedom
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Barack Obama Awarded 16 Individuals with the Medal Of Freedom on August 12th 2009 – The Highest US Civilian Honor.
We would like to point out the one specific individual that was the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers which have led to dramatically improved survival rates.
Janet Davison Rowley, M.D., is the Blum Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at The University of Chicago. She is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. Rowley is internationally renowned for her studies of chromosome abnormalities in human leukemia and lymphoma, which have led to dramatically improved survival rates for previously incurable cancers and the development of targeted therapies. In 1999 President Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Science–the nation’s highest scientific honor.
