The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) will be hosting a Distinguished Speaker Seminar featuring Dr. Elaine Fuchs, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University. Her talk is titled, “Skin Stem Cells in Stress, Inflammation and Cancer.“
Dr. Fuchs is a 1972 graduate of the Department of Chemistry and is renowned for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and associated disorders, including cancers and inflammation. Fuchs has published more than 380 manuscripts. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton, complete a post doctorate at MIT, and has been faculty at University of Chicago and now Rockefeller University, where she is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her awards include the National Medal of Science, L’Oreal-UNESCO Award, International Society for Stem Cell Research Innovation Award, the Gairdner International Award and the Franklin Medal. Fuchs holds membership in the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medicine, American Philosophical Society, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society.