Beatrice Mintz
Beatrice Mintz (born January 24, 1921 in New York City ) is an American geneticist , embryologist and cancer researcher .
Life
Mintz acquired in 1941 at Hunter College in New York City a bachelor , in 1944 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City a master and in 1946 a Ph.D. there. Between 1946 and 1960 she was Professor of Biology at the University of Chicago before moving to the Institute for Cancer Research (later Fox Chase Cancer Center ) in Philadelphia . Since 1965 she also held a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania , also in Philadelphia.
Act
Mintz developed methods to fuse embryos from mice of different genetic origins to create chimeras . By introducing of virus - DNA into the genome , they produced the first transgenic mice. Mintz was able to show that certain tumor cells that are introduced into early mouse embryos ( blastocysts ) lose their malignant behavior. Mintz succeeded for the first time in bringing pluripotent stem cells into cell culture . She developed the first animal model for malignant melanoma .
Awards (selection)
- 1973 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1979 Rosenstiel Award
- 1981 Genetics Society of America Medal
- 1982 member of the American Philosophical Society
- 1982 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1986 member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 1988 Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1990 Ernst Jung Gold Medal for Medicine
- 1993 Outstanding Women in Science, New York Academy of Sciences
- 1996 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (with Ralph L. Brinster )
- 2007 Pearl Master Greengard Prize
- 2011 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research
- 2012 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
- Five honorary doctorates
Web links
- Beatrice Mintz in the Gale Encyclopedia of Biography (answers.com); Retrieved May 17, 2012
- Beatrice Mintz ( b.1921 ) Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives (si.edu)
- Beatrice Mintz, PhD at Fox Chase Cancer Center (fccc.edu); Retrieved May 19, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Past Winners - Rosenstiel Award - Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center - Brandeis University. In: brandeis.edu. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
- ^ Past GSA Award Recipients at the Genetics Society of America (genetics-gsa.org); Retrieved May 13, 2012
- ↑ Dr. Beatrice Mintz at the American Philosophical Society (amphilsoc.org); Retrieved May 17, 2012
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 323 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved May 17, 2012
- ^ Beatrice Mintz at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (vatican.va); Retrieved May 13, 2012
- ↑ Tiffany K. Wayne: American Women of Science Since 1900. ABC-CLIO, 2011, ISBN 978-1-598-84158-9 , p. 693 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. Previous recipients. ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 2011 Szent-Györgyi Prize: Beatrice Mintz, Ph.D. - NFCR. In: nfcr.org. July 18, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Beatrice Mintz, Ph.D., receives ninth annual AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research at phys.org; Retrieved May 19, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mintz, Beatrice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geneticist, embryologist and cancer researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |