1. Elaine V Fuchs is an American cell biologist known for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, who helped lead the modernization of dermatology.
19 Facts About Elaine Fuchs
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Elaine Fuchs is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Rebecca C Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University.
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Elaine Fuchs said those influences were especially important to her as a child.
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Elaine Fuchs encouraged my sister and me in all different ways.
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Elaine Fuchs began as one of only three women in an undergraduate physics class of 200.
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Elaine Fuchs was politically active during college, protesting the Vietnam War and applying to the Peace Corps with the intention of being posted in Chile.
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Elaine Fuchs accepted a faculty position at the University of Chicago in 1980 and was the first woman in the biochemistry department.
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At the University of Chicago she was mentored and befriended by Janet Rowley and Susan Lindquist; they eventually all joined the reorganized Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, in which Elaine Fuchs was ultimately appointed the Amgen Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology.
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In 2002, Fuchs accepted a position at Rockefeller University, where she is currently the Rebecca C Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Elaine Fuchs is known for her study of skin, identifying the molecular mechanisms underlying skin disease, developing the field of skin stem cells, and pioneering reverse genetics.
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Elaine Fuchs currently sits on the board of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
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Elaine Fuchs was elected president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2001.
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In 2009 Elaine Fuchs was awarded the United States' highest honor for scientific contributions, the National Medal of Science, by President Barack Obama.
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Elaine Fuchs developed the reverse genetics approach when she began as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
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Elaine Fuchs first applied the technique by engineering a gene that affected keratin function and disrupted the framework of cells.
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Elaine Fuchs accomplished this by developing tumor cells that expressed a gene commonly found in skin cancer cells, HRasD12V.
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Elaine Fuchs determined that both the factors internal to the cell and the cell's external surrounding environment have an effect on the stem cells' niche in both their ability to divide and how they divide.
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Elaine Fuchs is married to a fellow academic, David Hansen, a faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Elaine Fuchs related a story from her early days in Chicago when a technician from one of the other labs, seeing her setting up her new lab, asked if she was Dr Fuchs' new technician.