“Skin Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Promise”
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, the Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute4:15 p.m., Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600
Cohosted by the Center for Systems Biology/Molecular and Cellular Biology/Center for Brain Science Seminar Series
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Elaine Fuchs is internationally known for her research in skin biology and associated human genetic disorders. Her current research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that affect how multipotent stem cells respond to external cues, change their program of gene expression, exit their niche, and adapt to make the epidermis, sebaceous glands, and hair follicles of the skin. Fuchs has begun to explore how normal tissue homeostasis changes during wound repair and in human disorders where tissue development goes awry.
This lecture is designed for the interested layperson and is free and open to the public.
Elaine Fuchs is the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the Rockefeller University. Before that, she was the Amgen Professor of Basic Sciences at the University of Chicago. She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1988. She is known for her research in skin biology and its human genetic disorders, including skin stem cells, cancers, and a variety of other diseases. She pioneered the use of reverse genetics, an approach that starts with understanding how proteins function and then employs mouse genetics to work up to the human diseases caused by defective proteins.
Her honors include a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a National Academy of Sciences Richard Lounsbery Award, a Novartis/Drew Award in Biomedical Research, a Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Scientific Excellence Award, a Beering Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Science, and the Dickson Prize in Medicine. She is a past president of the American Society for Cell Biology and current vice president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and its Institute of Medicine, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
