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American biochemist
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Mary C. (Cindy) Farach-Carson
BornGalveston, TX
Alma materMedical College of Virginia, PhD
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry
Thesis Molecular aspects of biological modulation of acetylcholine receptor function  (1982)
Doctoral advisorMarino Martinez-Carrion

Mary Cynthia (Cindy) Farach-Carson is an American biochemist, known for her work in extracellular matrix, perlecan, tissue engineering and bone metastasis. She is a professor of diagnostic and biomedical sciences and director of clinical and translational research at the school of dentistry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and an adjunct professor of biosciences and of bioengineering at Rice University.

Education

Farach-Carson received her BS in biology at the University of South Carolina in 1978 and her PhD in biochemistry from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1982. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Research contributions

Farach-Carson serves on the editorial boards of Biomolecules and Matrix Biology. She serves as senior scientist and on the steering committee of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, at Rice University.

She served as co-editor of the seven-volume reference book Topics in Bone Biology.

Awards and honors

In 2010, Farach-Carson was elected AAAS Fellow. In 2018, she was elected AIMBE Fellow. In 2016, she received the Presidential Mentoring Award at Rice University. In 2021, she was given the Stephen M. Krane Award by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ , UT Health, retrieved 2022-02-18.
  2. , Rice University Faculty, retrieved 2022-02-18.
  3. , Biomolecules Editorial Board
  4. , Matrix Biology Editorial Board
  5. , CTBP Senior Scientists
  6. Bronner, Felix; Farach-Carson, Mary C (2004). Topics in bone biology. Springer.
  7. , AAAS Elected Fellows
  8. , Mary C. Farach-Carson
  9. , Commencement Program
  10. , Stephen M. Krane Award

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