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Black and white photo of Sarah Stewart in her lab. She is wearing a white lab coat and holding a mouse in her left hand. A strand of pearls hangs around her neck, and she wears a pair of cateye glasses. Her silver hair is short and a bit curly. A microscope is visible in the background.

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Black and white photo of Sarah Stewart in her lab. She is wearing a white lab coat and holding a mouse in her left hand. A strand of pearls hangs around her neck, and she wears a pair of cateye glasses. Her silver hair is short and a bit curly. A microscope is visible in the background.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 17:27:43 UTC Robert McNees

Microbiologist Sarah Stewart, a pioneer of viral oncology who showed viruses could cause cancer in mammals, was born OTD in 1905.
Dr. Stewart left her position at the NIH microbiology lab and became an instructor at Georgetown Med School before women were allowed to enroll. In 1949 she became the first woman to earn an MD there.
Image: Georgetown University News Service

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