women in science. In 2003, she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society. In 2009, Dr. Rowley was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, by then-President Barack Obama, and the Gruber Prize in Genetics. Then in 2010, she was awarded the Jesse Stevenson Kovalenko Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. In 2012, Dr. Rowley was selected for the Hope Funds for Cancer Research Award of excellence in the area of Basic Research and was elected to the Hope Funds Scientific Advisory Board. Also in 2012, she won the Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology with two other scientists for her role in the creation of Gleevec. For Rowley's scientific contributions she has received honorary doctor of science degrees from multiple institutions some of which include Yale University and Harvard University. She is also a member of multiple scientific and honorary societies. These distinguished groups include the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. She published more than five hundred articles and continued her research at the University of Chicago until shortly before her death. In 2017, she was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Death On December 17, 2013, Rowley died at home at the age of 88 from complications of ovarian cancer. References Further reading National Library of Medicine. The University of Chicago Medical Center., 2009 The University of Chicago Medical Center., 2009 The University of Chicago Medical Center., April 27, 1999 The University of Chicago Medical Center., 1998 External links Guide to the Janet D. Rowley Papers 1940-2013 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center 1925 births 2013 deaths American biologists American geneticists Deaths from ovarian cancer Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Scientists from New York City Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients University of Chicago alumni University of Illinois faculty University of Chicago faculty University of Chicago Laboratory Schools alumni American women biologists Deaths from cancer in Illinois Pritzker School of Medicine alumni 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American scientists Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award American women academics 21st-century American women Members of the National Academy of Medicine