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A pioneer in connecting the development of cancer with genetic abnormalities, Janet D. Rowley, 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 Dec. 17 at her home. She was 88.
Scientific career. Institutions. University of Chicago. Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease.
Oct 14, 2021 · October 14, 2021. Janet D. Rowley, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, was a pioneer in connecting the development of cancer with genetic abnormalities. Before Rowley, few scientists suspected that chromosomal aberrations caused cancer.
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In 1962, after a year in England as an NIH trainee, studying the pattern of deoxyribonucleaic acid (DNA) replication in normal and abnormal human chromosomes, Dr. Rowley returned to the University of Chicago, as a research associate in the Department of Hematology.
Dec 19, 2013 · This longtime University of Chicago researcher was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word. Her discoveries about cancer genetics dramatically changed our understanding of the disease and opened the door to the development of personalized medicines for cancer.
Jan 22, 2014 · Encouraged by her mother, a high-school teacher and librarian, Janet received her bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago at the age of 19. Accepted subsequently to the...
