American Philosophical Society
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207. Genetics[X]
1Name:  Dr. Beatrice Mintz
 Institution:  Fox Chase Cancer Center
 Year Elected:  1982
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  207. Genetics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1921
 Death Date:  January 3, 2022
   
 
Beatrice Mintz is Jack Schultz Chair in Basic Science at the Fox Chase Cancer Center's Institute for Cancer Research, where she has been a senior memeber since 1965. Among her many scientific accomplishments, she is credited with the development of techniques for fusing mouse embryos of different genetic strains and the analysis of development using such allophenic animals. Dr. Mintz has also managed to reverse the malignancy of cancer cells by introducing them into the blastocyst of a genetically different mouse strain, whereupon the cancer cells take part in normal development of tissues and, over multiple generations, show no reversion to malignancy. Dr. Mintz's current research focuses on melanoma. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, she has also taught biology at the University of Chicago and medical genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1946.
 
2Name:  Dr. George D. Snell
 Institution:  Jackson Lab
 Year Elected:  1982
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  207. Genetics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1903
 Death Date:  6/6/96
   
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1982[X]