On behalf of the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) and its partner institutions, we are pleased to invite you to the 2025 KL2 Mini-Symposium Series on:
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Location:
Georgetown University Medical Center
Warwick Evans Conference Room, Building D
4000 Reservoir Rd, NW, Washington, DC 20007
Keynote Presentation
Topic: “Skin Stem Cells: Coping with Stress"
Speaker: Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Host & KL2 Scholar: Bonnie Carney, Ph.D.
Event Details
Registration: [REGISTER HERE] Please indicate if you plan to attend in-person or remote.
Space: Limited for in-person attendance.
Lunch: Provided for in-person attendees.
Questions: Contact us at ghuccts.education@georgetown.edu.
Keynote Speaker
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA. Elaine Fuchs is renowned for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and associated disorders, including cancers and inflammation, and has published >380 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 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.
Host & KL2 Scholar
Bonnie Carney, PhD is a Research Scientist in the Burn Research Laboratory at MedStar Health Research Institute, an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Surgery at Georgetown University and a 2023 GHUCCTS KL2 Scholar. Dr. Carney's research focuses on “Mechanistic pathophysiology of post-burn hypopigmented hypertrophic scar development”. She is dissecting altered melanocyte biology using cells and tissues from post-burn hypertrophic scar with altered pigmentation, with the ultimate goal to improve patient outcomes.