Maud Caroline Slye
Personal Information
Born: 1869
Died: 1954
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
University of Chicago 3 years undergraduate work & post-graduate work; Brown University AB 1899
""I breed out breast cancers. I don't think we should feel so hopeless about breeding out other types. Only romance stops us. It is the duty of scientists to ascertain and present facts. If the people prefer romance to taking advantage of these facts, there is nothing we can do about it.""
— Maud Caroline Slye
Professional Life
Field of Study: Genetics; Pathology
Institution/Corporation: University of Chicago; Sprague Memorial Institute
Degrees & Memberships: Honorary Degree: Brown University (1937); Member: Association for Cancer Research American Medical Association American Association for the Advancement of Science
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 1914 Gold Medal AMA; 1915 Ricketts Prize University of Chicago; 1922 Gold Medal American Radiological Society
Achievements: Work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice; advocated for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records; published 2 volumes of poetry
Her work centered on heritability of cancer in mice
"Invented" (really bred) genetically uniform mice as a research tool, breeding them herself; raised approximately 150,000 mice & kept their pedigrees
Was an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records
Spent most of her career at the University of chicago
Once went 26 years without a vacation because she didn't want to leave the care of her mice to anyone else
Published 2 volumes of poetry
Was the 1st to postulate certain types of cancer were inherited