is caused by a lack of activity in glycogen-branching enzyme, resulting in accumulation of glycogen in the liver. This disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and the first symptoms begin appearing during a child's first few months of life. Usually, this disease is fatal within the first few years of life. Personal life Anderson was well-liked as a professor. She had a reserved personality. Although often characterized as supposedly "unladylike", Dorothy Hansine Andersen enjoyed an active lifestyle that included hiking, canoeing, and carpentry. She was defended following such criticism by the supporters of her talent and contributions to the professional field of medicine. Toward the end of her career, Andersen had developed lung cancer and she underwent surgery in 1962. Dorothy Hansine Andersen died at the age of sixty-one on March 3, 1963, in New York, New York. Posthumous awards After her death in 1963, her work garnered further recognition. She was honored with the Distinguished Service Medal at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. In remembrance for her work on cystic fibrosis, Dorothy Hansine Andersen was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2002. See also Andersen's disease References Further reading External links Changing Face of Medicine Biography Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait of Dorothy Hansine Andersen by Katie Hafner in Scientific American 1901 births 1963 deaths American medical researchers Johns Hopkins University alumni Mount Holyoke College alumni Cystic fibrosis Women medical researchers Columbia Medical School faculty University of Rochester faculty 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American scientists American pulmonologists 20th-century American physicians Physicians from New York City 20th-century American women physicians Scientists from New York (state) Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) American women academics American people of Danish descent