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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Dr. Fuchs has published more than 270 papers and is internationally known for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and its associated human genetic disorders, which include skin cancers. Dr. Fuchs' current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that underlie how multipotent stem cells of the skin respond to external cues, change their program of gene expression, exit their niche and adopt specific fates to make the epidermis, glands and hair follicles of the skin in normal homeostasis and wound repair. She is also interested in how these pathways in normal stem cell biology go awry in human skin cancers.

Dr. Fuchs received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Princeton University, and after her postdoctoral research with Howard Green at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1980. She stayed there until 2002 when she relocated to The Rockefeller University. Dr. Fuchs' past awards and honors include the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Novartis-Drew Award for Biomedical Research, the Dickson Prize in Medicine, the FASEB Award for Scientific Excellence, the Beering Award, the National Medal of Science, the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award and the Charlotte Friend Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

In 2012, she received the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, which she shared with her postdoctoral mentor Howard Green, George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 2011, she received the Madison Medal, the Passano Award and the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. Dr. Fuchs is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the European Molecular Biology Organization (foreign member). She holds honorary doctorates from the Mount Sinai/New York University School of Medicine and from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Fuchs is also a past president of the American Society of Cell Biology, immediate past-president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and is on the board of governors of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Open to

Public

Host

Introduction by Mary Jeanne Kreek

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Robert Houghtaling

Phone

(212) 327-8072

Sponsor

Robert Houghtaling
(212) 327-8072
rhoughtali@rockefeller.edu