Robert McNeesMicrobiologist 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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