Janet Rowley to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom for cancer chromosome studies
Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 15:14
in Health & Medicine
Janet Davison Rowley, MD, a pioneer in demonstrating that cancer is a genetic disease, will receive the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom the White House announced Thursday. President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Rowley and 15 others at a ceremony Wednesday, August 12.