Daughter of William James and Atta Koontz Sanford.
Wife of Charles F.R. Mifflin.
She graduated as valedictorian of her class at Winchester High School, Winchester, Mass. The family then moved to Wellesley, Mass., and she received a full scholarship and graduated in 1937, and in 1942 earned a Ph.D. in biology, from Brown University, Providence, R.I.
After teaching biology, immunology and comparative anatomy at two colleges, Dr. Mifflin became assistant director of the science program at Johns Hopkins University Nursing School, Baltimore, in 1943. In 1947, she joined the tissue-culture section in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In 1974, she became head of NCI’s cell-physiology and oncogenesis section Laboratory of Biochemistry. From 1977 until her retirement, she was chief of the in vitro carcinogenesis section at NCI’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
She became world-renowned as a research scientist when she became the first person to clone a single isolated mammalian cell. In the mid-’90s, while she was researching genetic predispositions to cancer and DNA repair deficiencies, she developed the first laboratory test that distinguishes persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and persons predisposed to cancer. Some of her honors and awards in her 50-year career were: founding member of the American Association for Cancer Research, and participation as a member, as well as a board director or on committees, of 23 scientific associations from 1949 until her retirement in 1995. She also was a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1988.
Dr. Mifflin enjoyed attending plays and practicing the violin and had been a concertmaster of the NIH Community Orchestra. She and her husband enjoyed their home in Dover, as well as swimming, travel and their beloved cat, Toby.
She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Dover.
Wife of Charles F.R. Mifflin.
She graduated as valedictorian of her class at Winchester High School, Winchester, Mass. The family then moved to Wellesley, Mass., and she received a full scholarship and graduated in 1937, and in 1942 earned a Ph.D. in biology, from Brown University, Providence, R.I.
After teaching biology, immunology and comparative anatomy at two colleges, Dr. Mifflin became assistant director of the science program at Johns Hopkins University Nursing School, Baltimore, in 1943. In 1947, she joined the tissue-culture section in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In 1974, she became head of NCI’s cell-physiology and oncogenesis section Laboratory of Biochemistry. From 1977 until her retirement, she was chief of the in vitro carcinogenesis section at NCI’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
She became world-renowned as a research scientist when she became the first person to clone a single isolated mammalian cell. In the mid-’90s, while she was researching genetic predispositions to cancer and DNA repair deficiencies, she developed the first laboratory test that distinguishes persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and persons predisposed to cancer. Some of her honors and awards in her 50-year career were: founding member of the American Association for Cancer Research, and participation as a member, as well as a board director or on committees, of 23 scientific associations from 1949 until her retirement in 1995. She also was a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1988.
Dr. Mifflin enjoyed attending plays and practicing the violin and had been a concertmaster of the NIH Community Orchestra. She and her husband enjoyed their home in Dover, as well as swimming, travel and their beloved cat, Toby.
She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Dover.
Daughter of William James and Atta Koontz Sanford.
Wife of Charles F.R. Mifflin.
She graduated as valedictorian of her class at Winchester High School, Winchester, Mass. The family then moved to Wellesley, Mass., and she received a full scholarship and graduated in 1937, and in 1942 earned a Ph.D. in biology, from Brown University, Providence, R.I.
After teaching biology, immunology and comparative anatomy at two colleges, Dr. Mifflin became assistant director of the science program at Johns Hopkins University Nursing School, Baltimore, in 1943. In 1947, she joined the tissue-culture section in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In 1974, she became head of NCI’s cell-physiology and oncogenesis section Laboratory of Biochemistry. From 1977 until her retirement, she was chief of the in vitro carcinogenesis section at NCI’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
She became world-renowned as a research scientist when she became the first person to clone a single isolated mammalian cell. In the mid-’90s, while she was researching genetic predispositions to cancer and DNA repair deficiencies, she developed the first laboratory test that distinguishes persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and persons predisposed to cancer. Some of her honors and awards in her 50-year career were: founding member of the American Association for Cancer Research, and participation as a member, as well as a board director or on committees, of 23 scientific associations from 1949 until her retirement in 1995. She also was a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1988.
Dr. Mifflin enjoyed attending plays and practicing the violin and had been a concertmaster of the NIH Community Orchestra. She and her husband enjoyed their home in Dover, as well as swimming, travel and their beloved cat, Toby.
She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Dover.
Wife of Charles F.R. Mifflin.
She graduated as valedictorian of her class at Winchester High School, Winchester, Mass. The family then moved to Wellesley, Mass., and she received a full scholarship and graduated in 1937, and in 1942 earned a Ph.D. in biology, from Brown University, Providence, R.I.
After teaching biology, immunology and comparative anatomy at two colleges, Dr. Mifflin became assistant director of the science program at Johns Hopkins University Nursing School, Baltimore, in 1943. In 1947, she joined the tissue-culture section in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. In 1974, she became head of NCI’s cell-physiology and oncogenesis section Laboratory of Biochemistry. From 1977 until her retirement, she was chief of the in vitro carcinogenesis section at NCI’s Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
She became world-renowned as a research scientist when she became the first person to clone a single isolated mammalian cell. In the mid-’90s, while she was researching genetic predispositions to cancer and DNA repair deficiencies, she developed the first laboratory test that distinguishes persons with Alzheimer’s disease, and persons predisposed to cancer. Some of her honors and awards in her 50-year career were: founding member of the American Association for Cancer Research, and participation as a member, as well as a board director or on committees, of 23 scientific associations from 1949 until her retirement in 1995. She also was a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Science from Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1988.
Dr. Mifflin enjoyed attending plays and practicing the violin and had been a concertmaster of the NIH Community Orchestra. She and her husband enjoyed their home in Dover, as well as swimming, travel and their beloved cat, Toby.
She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, Dover.
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