in 2007, was a recipient of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. On March 8, 2011, the U.S. National Foundation for Cancer Research awarded Beatrice Mintz its Sixth Annual Szent-Gyorgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. In 2012, Mintz was awarded the Ninth Annual AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. She received honorary doctorate degrees from five universities. She delivered dozens of special lectures, including the Ninetieth Anniversary Lecture at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (1978) and the first Frontiers in Biomedical Sciences Lecture at the New York Academy of Sciences (1980). She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a senior member of the Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and served on the editorial boards of various scientific journals. Personal life and death Mintz died on January 3, 2022, from heart failure, three weeks before her 101st birthday. She had dementia in her later years. References External links Faculty profile, at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Query Theory: A tribute to Beatrice Mintz, PhD, part of the Cancer History Project from The Cancer Letter 1921 births 2022 deaths American embryologists American women biologists Jewish American scientists American people of Austrian-Jewish descent Scientists from New York City Hunter College alumni New York University alumni University of Iowa alumni University of Chicago faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences American centenarians Women centenarians Members of the American Philosophical Society Fox Chase Cancer Center people