Trail­blaz­ing can­cer re­searcher Beat­rice Mintz dies at 100 years old

Beat­rice Mintz, the can­cer re­search pi­o­neer whose dis­cov­er­ies laid the ground­work for many of to­day’s ther­a­pies, passed away on Jan. 3 at the age of 100.

“Bea,” as col­leagues would call Mintz, spent the last 60 years at the Fox Chase Can­cer Cen­ter in Philadel­phia, where she held a hand­ful of roles, in­clud­ing the Jack Schultz Chair in Ba­sic Sci­ence for more than a decade.

She was one of the mas­ter­minds be­hind sev­er­al im­por­tant break­throughs in can­cer bi­ol­o­gy and bio­med­ical re­search, in­clud­ing the de­vel­op­ment of trans­genic mice — ge­net­i­cal­ly en­gi­neered mouse mod­els that are used ex­ten­sive­ly to­day.

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