13th Conference on Signalling in Normal and Cancer Cells in Banff

Elaine Fuchs is renowned for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and associated disorders, including cancers and inflammation, and has published >370 manuscripts. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton, postdoctorate 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 most recently 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.

Dr. Rosen earned degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987, then spent a year at the University of Cambridge with Alan Battersby as a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholar. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard in 1993 under Stuart Schreiber, studying FKBP12. As a postdoc with Tony Pawson and Lewis Kay at the University of Toronto, he researched the Crk protein and developed selective methyl group labeling for NMR spectroscopy. He started his independent lab in 1996 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and moved to UTSW in 2001.