COURTESY OF MICHAEL P. CANCRO, PH.D., UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
“Mike always told us that a Section Chief in the NCI was the best job in science.”
—“Biographical Memoir,” Stuart Rudikoff and J. Frederic Mushinski National Academy of Sciences
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PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, CLINICAL CENTER PHOTO COLLECTION
This is the mouse room of the Carcinogenesis Section in the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Biology, led by Lloyd Law, when Potter joined in 1954. Law was among the first to use combination chemotherapy in leukemia. The use of inbred, genetically similar mice enabled scientists to transplant tumors from one mouse to the next and create a continuous line of identical tumors. Such tumor lines allowed researchers such as Potter to study them in depth in a controlled setting.
