Janet Rowley - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	05-April-1925
Place of Birth	New York City (New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality	United States of America
Janet Davison Rowley was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.

Awards by Janet Rowley

Check all the awards nominated and won by Janet Rowley.

1998

Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award	(For incisive studies in patient-oriented research that paved the way for identifying genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level.)
National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For revolutionizing cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment through her discovery of chromosomal translocations in cancer and her pioneering work on the relationship of prior treatment to recurring chromosome abnormalities, for epitomizing the bench to bedside philosophy in her application of basic discoveries to clinical medicine, and for her leadership nationally and internationally in the oncology and biomedical communities.)

1996

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For establishing the critical importance of chromosomal rearrangement as a specific cause of human cancer and for a lifetime of research to identify the genes that are rearranged to cause leukemia and lymphoma.)

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