Evelyn Witkin, who paved the way for advances in cancer treatment and genetics by conducting groundbreaking studies on the DNA-damage response, died at a rehabilitation center in Plainsboro Township, N.J. She was 102.
, a top honor in medical research. She shared both those awards with Stephen Elledge, who had applied her research to more complex organisms, including human beings.
She also got involved in campus activism. During her senior year, in 1940, she helped lead a protest against the university’s treatment of Black athletes, who were left at home when the school’s sports teams traveled to compete against segregated universities. Dr. Witkin received her bachelor’s degree in 1941 and her doctorate in zoology in 1947. By then she had already started working at Cold Spring Harbor, where she befriended
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