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  1. Jan 22, 2014 · CHICAGO MEDICINE. Janet Davison was born in New York City on 5 April 1925 and spent most of her life in Chicago, Illinois. Encouraged by her mother, a high-school teacher and librarian, Janet ...

    • Brian J. Druker
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    • 2014
  2. Janet Davison Rowley was born April 5, 1925 in New York City, the only child of Hurford and Ethel Davison. Her parents, both UChicago graduates, moved to Chicago when she was 2. Her father taught retail store management at the college level and her mother taught English in the public high schools. In 1940, after two years at a Catholic girls ...

  3. Apr 15, 2014 · Janet Davison Rowley was a pioneer, a humanitarian, and a legend. As the mother of the field of cytogenetics (or as she referred to herself in later years—its grandmother), she laid the foundation for modern cancer molecular genetics and targeted therapy for oncology. Yet, it was her impact as a wife, mother, mentor, teacher, and role model that leaves the broadest footprint on the cancer ...

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  5. These skills were the ideal foundation for a research career. Davison remained at the University of Chicago and earned a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1944, a bachelor of science degree in 1946, and doctor of medicine degree in 1948. She married Donald Adams Rowley, also a physician, the day after graduating from medical school.

  6. Dec 18, 2013 · When Janet Rowley was accepted into the University of Chicago’s medical school in 1944, the quota for women was already filled — three in a class of 65. So she had to wait a year. Dr. Rowley ...

  7. Dec 20, 2013 · A pioneer in connecting the development of cancer with genetic abnormalities, Janet D. Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, died from complications of ovarian cancer on December, 17, 2013, at her home. She was 88. Rowley’s ...

  8. Jan 13, 2014 · Janet D. Rowley, M.D., died on December 17, 2013, from complications of ovarian cancer. Speaking about her own cancer experience as recently as November when she accepted an award from the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation, Janet said, “Cancer can be cured if we work hard enough.”. It was that type of resolve and commitment ...

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