Some of the most important occupants of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center live in cages in a gleaming
tower near Longwood Avenue. They are furry little mice, in varieties of white and brown and black, with long
pink tails. And they could play a vital role in the search for cures for cancer. Beth Israel Deaconess has been studying cancer in the thousands of rodents housed in its facilities, and now the medical center is poised to expand that research, using a new type of lab mouse that can host human cancer cells. Jeffrey E. Saffitz, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology and head of the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine, are quoted.
