Claudia Fischbach

Claudia Fischbach is a German biophysicist who is the Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. She is Director of the Cornell Physical Sciences Oncology Centre on the Physics of Cancer Metabolism.

Claudia Fischbach
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Harvard University
Scientific career
InstitutionsCornell University
Harvard University
ThesisAdipose tissue engineering development of a 3-D model system of adipogenesis (2004)

Early life and education

Fischbach-Teschl earned a master's degree in pharmacy from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She worked toward her doctorate in pharmaceutical technology at the University of Regensburg. She then moved to Harvard University, where she worked in engineering.[1]

Research and career

In 2007, Fischbach joined Cornell University,[2] where she started using biomedical engineering to better understand how to treat cancer.[3] The progression of cancer is influenced by cellular interactions with nearby cells and the extracellular matrix. Despite that, the majority of cancer studies do not replicate conditions outside of the body. Fischbach-Teschl uses tissue engineering to design systems that let her model and investigate tumor cells. She uses model systems to understand the biological strategies tumors take to modify bodily function, become more aggressive and metastasize.[4]

Fischbach has extensively investigated the fundamental mechanisms that underpin breast cancer. For example, she showed that obesity can change the consistence of breast tissue, which can promote the disease.[5][6] She was supported by the Human Frontier Science Program to study the impact of breast cancer on bone progression [7][8] She showed that exercise, which is often prescribed to tackle bone loss, could help to protect people against cancer.[9] Her research showed that breast cancer can trigger distant bone growth, which could be a preemptive defence against metastasis.[10]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References
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  2. "Principal Investigator – THE FISCHBACH LAB". www.fischbachlab.org. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  3. "Research – THE FISCHBACH LAB". www.fischbachlab.org. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  4. "Claudia Fischbach | Cornell Engineering". www.engineering.cornell.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  5. "Stiffer breast tissue in obese women promotes tumors". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  6. Ramanujan-Cornell, Krishna (25 August 2015). "Obesity makes breast tissue stiff and scarred". Futurity. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  7. "Study to focus on breast cancer's effect on bone composition". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  8. "Metastatic breast cancer affects bone mineral before spreading". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  9. "Exercise could reduce bone tumor growth". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  10. "Researchers link breast cancer and bone growth". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  11. "Stories by Claudia Fischbach". Scientific American. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  12. "Claudia Fischbach-Teschl Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite - AIMBE". Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  13. "Claudia Fischbach-Teschl, Ph.D. COF-1951 - AIMBE". Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  14. "Prof. Dr. Claudia Fischbach-Teschl - Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung".
  15. "EPICC Awards honor faculty, staff exemplifying college's core values | Cornell Engineering". www.engineering.cornell.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  16. "Claudia Fischbach-Teschl wins 2023 CMBE Momentum Award | Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering". www.bme.cornell.edu. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  17. "CMBE Momentum Award - Biomedical Engineering Society". www.bmes.org. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
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