Sigrid Berwind Memorial Pink Tulip Tea
On July 30 The Jackson Laboratory hosted its annual Sigrid Berwind Memorial Pink Tulip Tea in Bar Harbor. The first event was organized in 2007, in support of the Maine Cancer Foundation’s Pink Tulip Project. The Tulip Tea honors breast cancer survivors and raises funds for cancer researchers like Dr. Anne Peaston, this year’s speaker.
Dr. Peaston joined The Jackson Laboratory with the goal of discovering how cells reprogram themselves to change from one normal state (an egg) to a quite different but normal state (an embryo), as this might provide fundamental clues to the very beginning of cancer. She received funding from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to develop a mouse in which a particular type of mammary stem cell could be readily isolated from mice at any stage of tumor development.
Special thanks to The Bluenose Inn, a Lafayette Hotels property, for hosting this year’s Tulip Tea.
Dr. Peaston graduated from veterinary school in Sydney, Australia, in 1980. She was awarded U.S. board certification as a veterinary oncologist from the University of California, Davis, and was the first veterinarian to gain the equivalent status in Australia. She earned her Ph.D. in childhood cancer from the University of New South Wales.