By rights, Elaine Fuchs should be inside a taxi heading home from New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. Instead, the professor of mammalian cell biology and development at The Rockefeller University of New York City, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and president-elect of the ISSCR, is in Stockholm, Sweden, stranded alongside tens of thousands of other travelers because of the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano. The ash cloud will force her to miss a stateside meeting this week and deliver her address over the telephone instead. Yet Fuchs still manages to sound both cheery and relaxed. She's had to overcome far greater hurdles to become a leader in the study of skin, stem cells, and their molecular and genetic connections to cancers and other diseases.
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