Claudia Fischbach-Teschl
email: cf99[at]cornell.edu
Education
Ph.D. (2003) Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
M.S. (1998) Pharmacy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Positions
2020 Associate Director of the Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility (CNF)
2018 Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2016 Director, Physical Sciences Oncology Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2013-2014 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany
2013-2018 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2003-2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998-2003 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Honors and Awards
2020
Appointed as Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2019
Chair, Gordon Research Conference Physics of Cancer
2018
Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society
2017
Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Bioengineering
2016
Cornell College of Engineering Research Excellence Award
2016
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2015
Fellow, The Op-Ed Project at Cornell designed to enhance thought leadership position
2014
Invited Speaker, Keystone Symposium ‘Engineering Cell Fate and Function’, Squaw Creek, CA
2013-2014
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
2013
Invited Speaker, Gordon Conference ‘Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering’, Holderness, NH
2013
Young Innovator, Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech, Seminar Speaker
2010
Affinito Stewart Award, President’s Council of Cornell Women
2008
ORS Young Investigator at the AAOS / ORS Molecular Biology and Therapeutics in Musculoskeletal Oncology (MBTMO) Meeting
2003-2004
Postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2004
Award for outstanding dissertations at Eastern Bavarian universities “Kulturpreis E.ON Bayern fuer herausragende Leistungen in Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaft an den ostbayerischen Fachhochschulen und Universitaeten”
2004
PhD Summa Cum Laude, University of Regensburg, Germany
2004
Keystone Symposia “Molecular Control of Adipogenesis and Obesity”, Poster Award awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
2002-2003
Predoctoral fellow of the German “Program for advancement of equal opportunities for women in research and academia” (Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsprogramm – Programm zur Foerderung der Chancengleichheit von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre)
2002
Keystone Symposia “Molecular Control of Adipogenesis and Obesity”, David and Lucille Packard Poster Award
Funding
NIH, New York State Center for Advanced Technology, New York State Department of Health, NYSTEM, Cornell NBTC/NSF, HSS – The Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Core Center, Morgan Tissue Engineering Program, Dept. of Urology at WCMC