The Jack Schultz Endowed Professor,
The Fox Chase Cancer Center

Beatrice Mintz might be called a double pioneer. As a woman studying science in the 1940s, she would have been vastly outnumbered by men in the field, but she distinguished herself as one of the premier experimental mouse geneticists in the world and developed the technology that led to the creation of transgenic and chimeric animals. She also was among the first to establish pluripotent stem cell cultures, the source of cells that may ultimately be used therapeutically to replace cells that die during a variety of diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Mintz’s pioneering work has led to numerous honors including the first Genetics Society of America Medal (1981), the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (1996), the American Cancer Society National Medal of Honor for Basic Research (1997), and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. In 2002, she was named to the Jack Schultz Endowed Chair at Fox Chase Cancer Center.