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Lake Forest, Ill. – University of Chicago professor Janet D. Rowley, M.D. will present "Human Leukemia: A Story of Discovery" at Lake Forest College on Thursday, October 24 at 4 p.m. in Meyer Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Rowley is the Blum-Reise Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and Human Genetics at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is internationally renowned for her studies of chromosome abnormalities associated with human leukemia and lymphoma. In 1999 President Clinton presented Dr. Rowley with the National Medal of Science and she was the recipient of the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Prize in 1998, the most distinguished American honor for clinical medical research. Rowley received the Chicagoan of the Year award in 1999 and currently serves on the U.S. President’s Bioethics Council. Meyer Auditorium is located in Hotchkiss Hall on the College’s Middle Campus. For more information contact (847) 735-6010. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Biology, Beta, Beta, Beta, student honorary society and the Chicago Alliance. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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