جون بيتنر

جون جوسف بيتنر John Joseph Bittner ‏(25 فبراير 1904 - 14 ديسمبر 1961)، عالم جينات وبيولوجيا سرطان، له اسهامات عديدة في أبحاث فهم جينات سرطان الثدي، والتي لم تقتصر فائدتها على أبحاث السرطان، بل على أبحاث بيولوجية أخرى.

وقد تمكن من عزل "Bittner milk factor" (1949) من لبن نوع معين من الفئران، والذي أشار بقوة إلى أنه على الأقل بعض الفيروسات يمكنها التسبب في الاصابة بالسرطان. وباستخدام Using carefully bred strains of mice, he compared the role of the mother's genetic disposition to be either prone to cancer or resistant. By having the mice of one disposition act as foster mothers and nurse the babies of the other disposition, he showed that cancer-prone young could grow to be cancer resistant. The opposite was also true: babies originally cancer-resistant became cancer prone. He published this observation (1936), and went on to isolate particles of a virus-like size from the milk of cancer-prone mice that were not present in the milk of cancer-resistant mice. 6,000 م³

سيرته

ولد بيتنر في ميدڤل، پنسلڤانيا في 25 فبراير 1904، ابناً للراحل مارتن وميني بيتنر.

التكريم

Bittner received many awards, citations, and medals during his career. The most notable include the following:

1941 The Alvarenga Award - American College of Physicians in Philadelphia
1950 Medal of the American Cancer Study
1950 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1951 1st Comfort Crookshank Award - Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London
1957 Bertner Foundation Award - M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, University of Texas Medical School, Houston
1957 Doctor of Medicine and Surgery honoris causae - University of Perugia, Italy

المراجع

Rader. Karen A. Making Mice Standardizing Animals For American Biomedical Research 1900-1955 Princeton University Press (2004)

"University of Minnesota, Institute for Molecular Virology, UMN Virology Timeline"
"Obituary, John Joseph Bittner, 1904-1961"
1, May 1942 "The Milk-Influence of Breast Tumors in Mice"
[1] Journal of Virology, June 1970 "Morphogenesis of Bittner Virus"

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