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Athena Cherry, the director of Stanford’s Cytogenetics Laboratory for more than 20 years, died Feb. 4 of lung cancer.

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Athena Cherry, PhD

Athena Milatovich Cherry, PhD, professor of pathology and of pediatrics at the Stanford School of Medicine, died Feb. 4 of lung cancer at her home on the university campus. She was 60. 

Cherry was the director of Stanford’s Cytogenetics Laboratory, where she oversaw, evaluated and diagnosed thousands of patient cases each year. Cytogenetics is the study of the structure and function of chromosomes in normal and diseased cells. Identifying chromosomes that are broken, rearranged or missing plays a critical role in the diagnosis of...

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By KRISTA CONGER, science writer in the Office of Communications

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Stanford Medicine
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