Local Cancer Researcher Gets Whopping $500,000 for Work
Dr. Rowley adds one more award to long list of accomplishments
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Cancer patients can give thanks to 84-year-old University of Missouri researcher Dr. Janet Davison Rowley who has made many breakthroughs in her cancer research.
After decades of research and work, 84-year-old University of Chicago cancer researcher Dr. Janet Davison Rowley has good reason to smile proudly about her accomplishments.
From being named the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago in 1984 to winning the National Medal of Science in 1999, Rowley is now being awarded the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation’s 2009 genetics prize.
The $500,000 cash prize comes with no strings attached, and honors Rowley for her research on recurring chromosome abnormalities in leukemias and lymphomas.
Rowley’s scientific career launched in 1962 and, due to her research, new cancer treatments have been born.
She was the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.
Her prize will be presented in Honolulu on Oct. 23 at the American Society of Human Genetics’ annual meeting.
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