Professor William Thilly, whose research illuminated the effects of mutagens on human cells, dies at 79

Professor William Thilly, whose research illuminated the effects of mutagens on human cells, dies at 79

William Thilly ’67, ScD ’71, a professor in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, died Dec. 24 at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts. He was 79. Thilly, a pioneer in the study of human genetic mutations, had been a member of the MIT faculty since 1972. Throughout his career, he developed novel ways to measure how environmental mutagens affect human cells, creating assays that are now… Source